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The gift of the other : Levinas and the politics of reproduction / Lisa Guenther.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in gender theoryPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1429417374
  • 9781429417372
  • 9780791468470
  • 9780791481363
  • 0791481360
  • 079146847X
  • 0791468488
  • 9780791468487
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gift of the other.DDC classification:
  • 306.874/301 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1206 .G838 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction : the gift of the other -- Ch. 1 "facts" of life : Beauvoir's account of reproduction -- Ch. 2 body politic : Arendt on time, natality, and reproduction -- Ch. 3 Welcome the stranger : birth as the gift of the feminine other -- Ch. 4 Fathers and daughters : Levinas, Irigaray, and the transformation of paternity -- Ch. 5 Ethics and the maternal body : Levinas and Kristeva between the generations.
Summary: "The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction : the gift of the other -- Ch. 1 "facts" of life : Beauvoir's account of reproduction -- Ch. 2 body politic : Arendt on time, natality, and reproduction -- Ch. 3 Welcome the stranger : birth as the gift of the feminine other -- Ch. 4 Fathers and daughters : Levinas, Irigaray, and the transformation of paternity -- Ch. 5 Ethics and the maternal body : Levinas and Kristeva between the generations.

"The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity."--Jacket.

English.

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