ABSTRACT

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|93 pages

Reading Silence

chapter 1|18 pages

Speaking Silence

Woman's voice in philosophy 1

chapter 2|23 pages

Philosophy

Reading denial

chapter 3|18 pages

Reading Psychoanalysis

Psychotic texts/maternal pre-texts

chapter 4|17 pages

Philosophy and Silence

The Différend

chapter 5|15 pages

Unquiet Silence

Kristeva reading Marx with Freud

part II|81 pages

Speaking Silence

chapter 6|31 pages

Kristeva

Naming the problem

chapter 7|25 pages

Collecting Mothers

Women at the Symsposium

chapter 8|17 pages

Mothers and Daughters

Speaking

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

Speaking with(in) the symbolic