Mad mothers, bad mothers, & what a "good" mother would do : the ethics of ambivalence /
LaChance Adams, Sarah,
Mad mothers, bad mothers, & what a "good" mother would do : the ethics of ambivalence / Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a good mother would do Sarah LaChance Adams. - xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a "good" mother would do -- The mother as ethical exemplar in care ethics -- Motherhood's janus head -- Maternity as vulnerability in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- Maternity as dehiscience in the flesh in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Maternity as negotiating mutual transcendence in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir -- Conclusion : The stranger of my flesh - an existential phenomenological ethics.
Sarah LaChance Adams gives a compelling account of maternal ambivalence. Taking the mother's conflicting needs and desires to nurture, on the one hand, and to be independent and free of care-taking responsibilities, on the other, as a model for the ethical relationship, she argues that all human relationships are ambivalent. Moreover, it is this ambivalence that makes them ethical. She shows how the conflict between care and independence is at the heart of all ethical relationships.
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40023551584
2013035268
Ambivalence.
Mothers--Conduct of life.
Mad mothers, bad mothers, & what a "good" mother would do : the ethics of ambivalence / Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a good mother would do Sarah LaChance Adams. - xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a "good" mother would do -- The mother as ethical exemplar in care ethics -- Motherhood's janus head -- Maternity as vulnerability in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- Maternity as dehiscience in the flesh in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Maternity as negotiating mutual transcendence in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir -- Conclusion : The stranger of my flesh - an existential phenomenological ethics.
Sarah LaChance Adams gives a compelling account of maternal ambivalence. Taking the mother's conflicting needs and desires to nurture, on the one hand, and to be independent and free of care-taking responsibilities, on the other, as a model for the ethical relationship, she argues that all human relationships are ambivalent. Moreover, it is this ambivalence that makes them ethical. She shows how the conflict between care and independence is at the heart of all ethical relationships.
0231166745 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231166753 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231166744 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231166751 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40023551584
2013035268
Ambivalence.
Mothers--Conduct of life.