Response: The Material Conditions for Theorizing Maternality, or Why Is It so Difficult to Think about Being a Mother?
In response to the four essays preceding, this article considers the question: “why it is so difficult to think maternality?” In different ways, all four of the essays in this special issue attest to the dangers of essentializing a connection between “woman” and “mother.” In order to disentangle thi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2013
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| In: |
Theology & sexuality
Year: 2013, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 283-295 |
| Further subjects: | B
maternality
B Feminism B Materiality B Psychoanalysis B Existential phenomenology B “lived body” |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | In response to the four essays preceding, this article considers the question: “why it is so difficult to think maternality?” In different ways, all four of the essays in this special issue attest to the dangers of essentializing a connection between “woman” and “mother.” In order to disentangle this link, one strategy is to theorize maternality as positively distinct from materiality. The article argues, instead, that a material grounding of maternality might in fact be shown to offer a way out of essentialist (and other equally-limiting) discourses, while at the same time responding to some of the material conditions that threaten theoretical discussions of what it means to be a “mother.” |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000035 |