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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What A “Good” Mother Would Do
2. The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Care Ethics
3. Motherhood’s Janus Head
Psychology and Psychoanalysis
The Two Faces of Maternal Ambivalence
Mutuality—My Child, Myself
Conflict—Either the Kid Goes or I Go
Ambiguous Intersubjectivity—More and Less Than One
4. Maternity as Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
A Sketch of Femininity and Maternity in Levinas
Ambiguous Intersubjectivity in Levinas
Ethical Ambivalence
5. Maternity as Dehiscence in the Flesh in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Ambiguous Intersubjectivity and Maternal Flesh
Feminist Readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Logic of the Flesh
Merleau-Ponty’s Ethics (Implied or Inferred)
6. Maternity as Negotiating Mutual Transcendence in the Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir
Intersubjective Ambiguity and Existential Morality
The Existential and Ethical Significance of Motherhood
“Without Failure, No Ethics”
Conclusion: The Stranger of My Flesh—An Existential Phenomenological Ethics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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