Description: Maternal Encounters by Lisa Baraitser Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Drawing on contemporary philosophies of feminist ethics as well as psychoanalytic theorists, this book addresses a gap in theoretical work on contemporary motherhood. Publisher Description Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Womens Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award! Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However, although motherhood can catapult us into a state of internal disarray, it can also provide us with a unique chance to make ourselves anew. How then do we understand this radical potential for transformation within maternal experience? In Maternal Encounters, Lisa Baraitser takes up this question through the analysis of a series of maternal anecdotes, charting key destabilizing moments in the life of just one mother, and using these to discuss many questions that have remained resistant to theoretical analysis -- the possibility for a specific feminine-maternal subjectivity, relationality and reciprocity, ethics and otherness.Working across contemporary philosophies of feminist ethics, as well as psychoanalysis and social theory, the maternal subject, in Baraitsers account, becomes an emblematic and enigmatic formation of a subjectivity called into being through a relation to another she comes to name and claim as her child. As she navigates through the peculiarity of maternal experience, Baraitser takes us on a journey in which the mother emerges in the most unlikely, precarious and unstable of places as a subject of alterity, transformation, interruption, heightened sentience, viscosity, encumberment and love. This book presents a major new theory of maternal subjectivity, and an innovative and accessible way into our understanding of contemporary motherhood. As such, it will be of interest to students of family studies, gender studies, psychoanalysis, critical psychology and feminist philosophy as well as counselling and psychotherapy. Author Biography Lisa Baraitser is Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, a feminist theorist, writer and theatre director, and a psychotherapist with a particular interest in working with mothers. Her research is currently concerned with articulations of the maternal in the fields of psychoanalysis, social theory, feminism and philosophy. Details ISBN 0415455006 ISBN-13 9780415455008 Title Maternal Encounters Author Lisa Baraitser Format Hardcover Year 2008 Pages 200 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:16166328; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780415455008
Book Title: Maternal Encounters
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Maternal Encounters : the Ethics of Interruption
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, General, Interpersonal Relations, Emotions
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Lisa Baraitser
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Women and Psychology Ser.
Format: Hardcover
