Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy,

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.

List of Figures	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights
Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice	p. 21
Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother	p. 34
Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed	p. 49
Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering	p. 64
Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust	p. 79
Maternal Roles and Relations
The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis	p. 93
Mothers, Children with Disability, and Postmodern Sainthood	p. 107
Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter	p. 126
Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers' Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance	p. 138
On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings and World Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-full Ethics	p. 151
Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics
Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die	p. 165
The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity	p. 178
Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and Its Practical, Political Consequences	p. 191
The Aesthetics of Childbirth	p. 215
The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime	p. 237
Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 257
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