Linda Burnett offers a genuinely new perspective on motherhood, arguing that most feminist scholarship is unduly reluctant to acknowledge the role of biological and material factors involved. The importance of embodiment and affect in recent critical work makes this a timely intervention into research on motherhood which will be of interest to a range of scholars and students.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: An absence: the maternal biological body in feminist writings
Chapter 3: From neurons to subjectivities
Chapter 4: Maternal experiences: neurobiological perspectives
Chapter 5: Mother and infant: Co-creating a relationship and each other
Chapter 6: Maternal love and care and maternal subjectivities
Chapter 7: Re-reading and re-framing
Chapter 8: Maternal transformation
Chapter 9: The uniqueness of maternal attachment
Chapter 10: Being there
Chapter 11: Conclusion
