Baraitser, Lisa
Maternal Encounters
- ISBN 13:
- 9780415455015
- author:
- Baraitser, Lisa
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2008
- Pages:
- 185
- Dimensions:
- 156 mm X 234 mm
- Genre:
- Feminism & feminist theory
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Lisa Baraitser explores the complex and transformative experience of motherhood in "Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption". This book delves into the ways in which mothering can prompt profound changes in identity, relationships, and sense of self. Through a series of maternal anecdotes, Baraitser examines questions that have resisted theoretical analysis, including the possibility of a specific feminine-maternal subjectivity and relationality. Working across contemporary philosophies of feminist ethics, psychoanalysis, and social theory, Baraitser presents a major new theory of maternal subjectivity. She argues that motherhood can be a site of transformation, interruption, and heightened sentience, where the mother emerges as a subject of alterity and love. This innovative approach offers an accessible way into our understanding of contemporary motherhood. By charting key destabilizing moments in the life of one mother, Baraitser sheds new light on the complexities of maternal experience. "Maternal Encounters" is a thought-provoking exploration of the ethics of interruption and the radical potential for transformation within maternal experience.
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