Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy Childbirth and Mothering

<p>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.</p>