1st Edition
The Impossibility of Motherhood Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering
By Patrice DiQuinzio
Copyright 1999
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and oppression of women, especially the view that all women should be mothers, want to be mothers, and are... Read more
Introduction Mothering and Feminism 1 Feminism and Individualism 2 Mothering and the Emergence of Feminism 3 Mothering and Difference Feminism 4 The Body as Situation 5 Maternal Thinking 6 Embodiment and Discourse 7 Mothering and Psychoanalysis 8 Mothering and Women's Experience Conclusion The Impossibility of Motherhood
Biography
Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College. Her work on mothering and feminist theory has appeared n Hypatia and Women and Politics.
"DiQuinzio presents a compelling case for a difference-based feminist approach to mothering capable of decentering unified and totalizing truth claims." -- Susan Driver, RFR/DRF, Winter-Spring 2001
