Just life : bioethics and the future of sexual difference / Mary Rawlinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawlinson, Mary, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 266 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Mary C. Rawlinson is professor and chair of philosophy at Stony Brook University.

Summary:

Just Life reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama. Invoking two concrete universals—everyone is born of a woman and everyone needs to eat—Rawlinson rethinks labor and food as relationships that make ethical claims and sustain agency. Just Life counters the capitalization of bodies under biopower with the solidarity of sovereign bodies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: On the necessity of universals in philosophy and bioethics

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Our time - man, money, and media

I. CRITIQUE OF RIGHTS. 1. State of nature! Poperty, propriety, and the rights of man

2. Capitalized bodies: bioethics, biopower, and the practice of freedom

II. REFIGURING ETHICS. 3. Antigone and Ismene: hard heads, hard hearts, and the claim of the right

4. Demeter and Persephone, "unies sous le même manteau"

III. LIVABLE FUTURES. 5. Eating at the heart of ethics

6. A working life

IV. SOVEREIGN BODIES: POLITICS OF WONDER OR THE RIGHT TO BE JOYFUL

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231541190

0231541198

OCLC:

944241810