Holding and letting go : the social practice of personal identities / Hilde Lindemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindemann, Hilde, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 219 pages)

Other Title:

Social practice of personal identities

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our identities give us our sense of how to act and how to treat others, and that the ways in which we we hold each other in them is of crucial moral importance.

Contents:

What child is this? The practice of personhood

Architect and the bee: calling the fetus into personhood

Second persons: the work of identity formation

Ordinary identity-work: how we usually go on

Struggling to catch up: challenges to identity-work

What and when to let go: identities at the end of life

What does it all mean?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-064960-7

0-19-934946-0

0-19-934947-9