Philosophy and the maternal body : reading silence / Michelle Boulous Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Michelle Boulous, 1959-

Boulous Walker M Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

x, 235 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

Contents:

chapter INTRODUCTION

part Part I READING SILENCE

chapter 1 SPEAKING SILENCE

Woman's voice in philosophy

chapter 2 PHILOSOPHY

Reading denial

chapter 3 READING PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychotic texts/maternal pre-texts

chapter 4 Philosophy and silence

chapter 5 UNQUIET SILENCE

Kristeva reading Marx with Freud

part Part II SPEAKING SILENCE

chapter 6 KRISTEVA

Naming the problem

chapter 7 Collecting mothers: women at the Symposium

Women at the Symsposium

chapter 8 MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

Speaking.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-230) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70304-X

1-134-70305-8

1-282-77729-7

9786612777295

0-203-00687-9

9780203006870

OCLC:

277634519