Reframing Pregnancy and the Maternal through Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida
by
Jane Lymer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Phenomenology of Gravidity explores the particularity of women's engagements with gestation, linking the denial of certain embodied experiences of pregnancy to gender oppression. Employing the term 'gravidity' to name the metaphysical condition of having conceived, Lymer develops a theory of maternity...