ABSTRACT
Post-intentional phenomenology at 30K draws on phenomenological and post-structural philosophies. The post-structural commitment to knowledge being conceived as partial, situated, endlessly deferred, and circulating through relations is a productive way to theorize contemporary conceptualizations of phenomenology. When enacting post-intentional phenomenology, it is critical that one resists binaries such as either–or thinking, right–wrong, normal–abnormal, and the rigidity that often continues after a binary begins to break down. In post-intentional phenomenology the goal is to see what the phenomenon might become. Throughout Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, Madeleine R. Grumet carefully weaves feminist theory and phenomenology together to create complicated images of women, mothering, and teaching. The political work is made possible through the interactions between phenomenological philosophy and feminism. Grumet chooses a particular philosophical concept in phenomenology, the lifeworld. The lifeworld, is the intentional world, where meanings come into being—the interconnected space that Descartes had severed.
