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Beauvoir's Account
Black Feminist Thought
Black Women Intellectuals
Black Women's Consciousness
Black Women's Experiences
Black Women's Mothering
Black Women's Standpoint
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Chodorow's Account
Collins's Account
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Elshtain's Argument
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Essential Motherhood
feminist
feminist epistemology
gendered embodiment
Independent Woman
intersectional gender analysis
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Liberal Democratic Capitalism
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Maternal Embodiment
maternal identity politics
Maternal Practice
Mother Daughter Relationship
paradoxes in feminist mothering
psychoanalytic theory
qualitative social theory
Rubin's Analysis
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Ruddick's Account
Ruddick's Work
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Theorize Mothering
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Women's Individualist Subjectivity
Women's Mothering
Women's Sexual Freedom
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- ISBN 9780415910231
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and oppression of women, especially the view that all women should be mothers, want to be mothers, and are most happy being mothers. This book considers how thinkers including Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Nancy Choderow and Adrienne Rich struggle to negotiate this dilemma of difference in analyzing mothering, encompassing the paradoxes concerning embodiment, gender and representation they encounter. Patrice Di Quinzio shows that mothering has been and will continue to be an intractable problem for feminist theory itself, and suggests the political usefulness of an explicitly paradoxical politics of mothering.
Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College. Her work on mothering and feminist theory has appeared n Hypatia and Women and Politics.
