Description
Book SynopsisChallenges gendered views of birth and death
Trade Review"For feminist scholars across the disciplines." -Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University "I know of no other philosophical work that relates birth and death with sustained, in-depth treatment and connects them to the work of major philosophers." -Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Birth, Death, and Femininity / Robin May Schott
Part 1. Politics of Community
2. Sexual Violence, Sacrifice, and Narratives of Political Origins / Robin May Schott
3. Natality and Destruction: Arendtian Reflections on War Rape / Robin May Schott
Part 2. Phenomenologies of Mortality and Generativity
4. The Sexed Self and the Mortal Body / Sara Heinämaa
5. Being toward Death / Sara Heinämaa
6. Future and Others / Sara Heinämaa
Part 3. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life
7. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Birth / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
8. The Natal Self / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
Part 4. An Ancient Tragedy
9. Antigone and the Deadly Desire for Sameness: Reflections on Origins and Death / Vigdis Songe-Møller
Notes on Contributors
Index
