03428nam 2200709Ia 450 991097177900332120200520144314.09780791481363079148136097814294173721429417374(CKB)1000000000468042(OCoLC)77058884(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579138(SSID)ssj0000162880(PQKBManifestationID)11149527(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162880(PQKBWorkID)10208446(PQKB)11429968(MiAaPQ)EBC3407715(OCoLC)868030841(MdBmJHUP)muse6440(Au-PeEL)EBL3407715(CaPaEBR)ebr10579138(OCoLC)923408538(DE-B1597)684150(DE-B1597)9780791481363(Perlego)2671648(EXLCZ)99100000000046804220051118d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe gift of the other Levinas and the politics of reproduction /Lisa Guenther1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (202 p.) SUNY series in gender theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791468470 079146847X Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The “Facts” of Life: Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction -- The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction -- Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other -- Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity -- Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations -- Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWinner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyThe 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.SUNY series in gender theory.Woman (Philosophy)MotherhoodPhilosophyReproductionWoman (Philosophy)MotherhoodPhilosophy.Reproduction.306.874/301Guenther Lisa1971-1814354MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971779003321The gift of the other4368202UNINA