Feminism, psychoanalysis and maternal subjectivity / Alison Stone
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 30Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012Description: ix, 194p. 23cmISBN: - 9780415885423
- 306.874301 STO
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| 306.8743 ARC Our mother's daughters / | 306.8743 MIN Mothers of six cultures : | 306.8743 PHO Young mothers ? / | 306.874301 STO Feminism, psychoanalysis and maternal subjectivity / | 306.87430942 FIL Women as mothers in pre-industrial England : | 306.8743095 RAM Maternities and modernities : | 306.87432 SAW Generation unbound |
In this book, the author develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Author argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain their subjectivity when their motherhood seems to have compromised it, theirs cannot be the usual kind of subjectivity premised on separation from the maternal body. Mothers are subjects of a new kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position of re-immersion in the realm of maternal body relations, of bodily intimacy and dependency.
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