Philosophical Inquiry Into Pregnancy, Childbirth & Mothering: Maternal Subjects

Philosophical Inquiry Into Pregnancy, Childbirth & Mothering: Maternal Subjects

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Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal aesthetics, and pursuing old ones in new ways, such as motherhood as a site of contrast between ethics of care and ethics of justice. The theoretical foci of the book includes feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories. These perspectives are then employed to consider many dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, which are of central importance to human existence, but are only rarely discussed in philosophical cannons. Topics include pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, miscarriage and premature birth, adoption, post-partum motherhood, and commercialized, lesbian mothering, and global surrogacy.

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