The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering

by Patrice DiQuinzio

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136752087
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/1999
Series:	Thinking Gender
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Mothering and Feminism 1 Feminism and Individualism 2 Mothering and the Emergence of Feminism 3 Mothering and Difference Feminism 4 The Body as Situation 5 Maternal Thinking 6 Embodiment and Discourse 7 Mothering and Psychoanalysis 8 Mothering and Women's Experience Conclusion The Impossibility of Motherhood

Editorial Reviews

"DiQuinzio presents a compelling case for a difference-based feminist approach to mothering capable of decentering unified and totalizing truth claims." — Susan Driver, RFR/DRF, Winter-Spring 2001

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