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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Ethics of Ambivalence

By: Sarah LaChance Adams

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Ethics of Ambivalence

By: Sarah LaChance Adams

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as ÒmadÓ or Òbad.Ó Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between oneÕs own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.

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The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

By: Adams Sarah LaChance

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While the existence of maternal ambivalence has been evident for centuries, it has only recently been recognized as central to the lived experience of mothering. This accessible, yet intellectually rigorous, interdisciplinary collection demonstrates its presence and meaning in relation to numerous topics such as pregnancy, birth, Caesarean sections, sleep, self-estrangement, helicopter parenting, poverty, environmental degradation, depression, anxiety, queer mothering, disability, neglect, filicide and war rape. Its authors deny the assumption that mothers who experience ambivalence are bad, evil, unnatural, or insane. Moreover, historical records and cross-cultural narratives indicate that maternal ambivalence appears in a wide range of circumstances; but that it becomes unmanageable in circumstances of inequity, deprivation and violence. From this premise, the authors in this collection raise imperative ethical, social, and political questions, suggesting possibilities for vital cultural transformations. These candid explorations demand we rethink our basic assumptions about how mothering is experienced in everyday life.

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Ethics of Ambivalence

By: Sarah LaChance Adams

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Ethics of Ambivalence

By: Sarah LaChance Adams

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.

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The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

By: Adams Sarah LaChance

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do

The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency

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