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Contents Foreword Eva Kittay xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist 1 PA RT I: TH E PH I LO S O P H I C A L CA N O N 1 Plato, Maternity, and Power: Can We Get a Different Midwife? Cynthia D. Coe 31 2 Of Courage Born: Reflections on Childbirth and Manly Courage Kayley Varnallis 47 3 Original Habitation: Pregnant Flesh as Absolute Hospitality Frances Gray 71 4 The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty Lisa Guenther 88 x ■ Contents PA RT II: ET H I C S 5 Birthing Responsibility: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Moral Significance of Birth Gail Weiss 109 6 Birthmothers and Maternal Identity: The Terms of Relinquishment Dorothy Rogers 120 7 What’s an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child’s Desires Are a Problem Melissa Burchard 138 PA RT III: PO L I T I C S 8 The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer: Battling the False Dichotomy Bertha Alvarez Manninen 171 9 The Political “Nature” of Pregnancy and Childbirth Candace Johnson 193 10 Disempowered Women? The Midwifery Model and Medical Intervention Sonya Charles 215 PA RT IV: PO P U L A R CU LT U R E 11 Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular Culture Kelly Oliver 241 12 Exposing the Breast: The Animal and the Abject in American Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding Rebecca Tuvel 263 PA RT V: FE M I N I S T PH E N O M E N O LO G Y 13 The Order of Life: How Phenomenologies of Pregnancy Revise and Reject Theories of the Subject Talia Welsh 283 14 The Vision of the Artist/Mother: The Strange Creativity of Painting and Pregnancy Florentien Verhage 300 Notes 321 Bibliography 371 List of Contributors 393 Index 397 ...

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