278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Family Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional concepts of maternity which are associated with nature, and our conceptions of... Read more
Acknowledgments, Preface: Family Values, Introduction: The Paradox o f Love, Part One: Social Body, Part Two: Body Politic, Postscript: Family Values and Social Subjectivity, Endnotes, References, Index
Biography
Kelly Oliver s Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Womanizing Nieztsche: Philosophy's Relation to the Feminine (Routledge, 1995) and Reading Kristeva: Unravelling the Double-bind, and editor of Ethics Politics and Difference in Kristeva's Writings (Routledge, 1994).
