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Overview"When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as ""mad"" or ""bad."" Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah LaChance AdamsPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.496kg ISBN: 9780231166744ISBN 10: 0231166745 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 29 April 2014 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do 2. The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Ethics 3. Motherhood's Janus Head 4. Maternity as Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas 5. Maternity as Dehiscence in the Flesh in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty 6. Maternity as Negotiating Mutual Transcendence in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir Conclusion: The Stranger of My Flesh-an Existential Phenomenological Ethics Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book is an important addition to the existing literature in feminist and phenomenological thought on mothering. -- T. L. Welsh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do is LaChance Adams's insightful crafting of an existentially informed ethic of care that will be a serious and influential contribution to feminist thought in a variety of disciplines and on a variety of topics. -- Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University In Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, LaChance Adams gives a compelling account of maternal ambivalence. Engaging care ethics and classical phenomenology, she not only challenges the place of mothers and the maternal in these philosophies, but also develops an alternative ethics 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. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers is beautifully written and compellingly argued. -- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt Author InformationSarah LaChance Adams is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Superior, and the coeditor of Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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