Lintott Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone

The Birth of Wisdom
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4143-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

The complex world of motherhood is here unveiled. Covering issuesranging from whether we should occasionally lie to our children, tothe unexpected challenges and complications of being a mother,Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone offersinsightful, serious but often humorous essays that can be enjoyedby everyone - including husbands and fathers.
* Considers salient philosophical issues relating to pregnancy,birth, babycare, and raising a child
* Chapters include "The Days and Nights of a New Mother:Existentialism in the Nursery", "The Media Proudly Presents: Lessons' from Celebrity Moms", and "The Off Button: ThoughtExperiments and Child Control"
* Contains work from diverse academic perspectives, includingeconomics, psychology, education, English, sociology, women'sstudies, and theological studies, as well as from nurses andstay-at-home mothers
* Includes a foreword by Judith Warner, the New York Timescolumnist ("Domestic Disturbances") and author of PerfectMadness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lintott, Sheila

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allhoff, Fritz

Warner, Judith

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Judith Warner).
Acknowledgments (Sheila Lintott).
Navel-Gazing at Its Finest: An Introduction to Motherhood- Philosophy for Everyone (Sheila Lintott).
PART I MOMMY BRAIN: Truth, Knowledge, and Belief inMothering.
1 How Many Experts Does It Take to Raise a Child? Motheringand the Quest for Certainty (Sue Ellen Henry).
2 Creative Mothering: Lies and the Lying Mothers Who TellThem (Amy Kind).
3 Pro-Choice Philosopher Has Baby: Reflections on FetalLife (Bertha Alvarez Manninen).
4 Kim, Ellen, and Zack's Big Adventure: Lesbian MothersRaising a Boy Steeped in His Masculinity (Kim Anno).
PART II LABOR PAINS: The Work and Wonder of Being aMom.
5 Days and Nights of a New Mother: Existentialism in theNursery (Elizabeth Butterfield).
6 Mindful Mothering: How Feminist Buddhist Practices EnhanceExperiences of Beauty (Sheryl Tuttle Ross).
7 A Face Only a Mother Could Love? On Maternal Assessments ofInfant Beauty (Glenn Parsons).
8 Kevin, Coming Into Focus: On Getting to Know My Son(Laura Newhart).
PART III MOM'S MORALITY: Ethical Issues inMothering.
9 Making Choices: The Ethics of Infant Feeding (ChrisMulford).
10 Lactational Burkas and Milkmen: On Public Breastfeedingand Male Lactation (Maureen Sander-Staudt).
11 On "Crying-It-Out" and Co-Sleeping (Kevin C. Elliott andJanet L. Elliott).
12 Natural Childbirth is for the Birds (Jen Baker).
PART IV IS MOTHERHOOD EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE?FANTASY MEETS REALITY.
13 The Off Button: Thought Experiments and Child Control(Sara Goering).
14 The Virtues of Motherhood (Nin Kirkham).
15 The Media Proudly Present: "Lessons" From CelebrityMoms (Clemence Due and Damien W. Riggs).
16 God, Mom! The Blessings of Breasts and Womb (GeorgeA. Dunn).
A Brief Afterword: Some Words from Contributors' Kidson Motherhood and Philosophy.
Read All About It: A Feminist Bibliography on Pregnancy andMothering (Compiled by Amy Mullin).
Notes on Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

Editor
Sheila Lintott is an Assistant Professor of Philosophyat Bucknell University, and the mother of two children. She isco-editor (with Allen Carlson) of Nature, Aesthetics, andEnvironmentalism: From Beauty to Duty (2008) and was co-editorof the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter(2005-2008).
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in thePhilosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as aSenior Research Fellow at the Australian NationalUniversity's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series,Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles,including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007),Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley,2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).