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Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: The Gift of the Other 5 A feminist approach to Levinas A Levinasian approach to feminism Birth, time, ethics 1 The ¿facts¿ of life: Beauvoir¿s account of reproduction 27 Take 1: Birth as a project Take 2: Birth as an ambiguous situation 2 The body politic: Arendt on time, natality and reproduction 51 Vita activa: Labour, work, action The temporality of action: Promise and forgiveness Thinking through natality Reproducing natality: Cavarero¿s reading of Arendt 3 Welcome the stranger: Birth as the gift of the feminine Other 86 Derrida and the gift of the impossible Cixous and the gift of the feminine Levinas and the gift of hospitality I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos You are welcome: From oikos to ethos 4 Fathers and daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the transformation of paternity 129 Paternity as infinite discontinuity Otherwise than paternity: Irigaray reading Levinas From paternity to the maternal body: Isaiah 49 5 Ethics and the maternal body: Levinas and Kristeva between the generations 164 Time and the maternal body Ethics and herethics Maternity as (ethical) persecution Turning to Kristeva: Motherhood and melancholia The pain of giving birth The pain of being born Returning to Levinas: Recurrence and the latent birth of the self Moses and his mothers: Numbers 11:12 6 Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The question of reproductive choice 247 Defending the imaginary domain: Drucilla Cornell Levinas between ethics and politics Ethics, politics and the prospect of ¿unborn mothers¿ Altered maternities Notes 290 Bibliography 316
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women -- Philosophy.
Reproduction -- Philosophy.
Motherhood -- Philosophy.
Lãaevinas, Emmanuel.