Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice

Authors

Jean Keller, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2012

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Feminist Philosophy | Philosophy | Women's Studies

Abstract

Book description:
Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal aesthetics, and pursuing old ones in new ways, such as investigating stepmothering as it might inform and ground an ethics of care. The theoretical foci of the book include feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories. These perspectives are then employed to consider many dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, which are of central importance to human existence, but are only rarely discussed in philosophical cannons. Topics include pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations – or the lack thereof – of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood.

Comments

Find this book in a library

Recommended Citation

Keller, Jean. “Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice.” In Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering: Maternal Subjects, edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt. New York: Routledge, 2012.