Acknowledgments Introduction: The Gift of the Other A Feminist Approach to Levinas A Levinasian Approach to Feminism Birth, Time, Ethics 1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir's Account of Reproduction Take 1: Birth as a Project Take 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction Vita Activa: Labor, Work, Action The Temporality of Action: Promise and Forgiveness Thinking Through Natality Reproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt 3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other Derrida and the Gift of the Impossible Cixous and the Gift of the Feminine Levinas and the Gift of Hospitality I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos You are welcome: From oikos to ethos 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity Paternity as Infinite Discontinuity Otherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading Levinas From Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 49 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations Time and the Maternal Body Ethics and Herethics Moses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:12 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla Cornell Levinas Between Ethics and Politics Ethics, Politics, and the Prospect of "Unborn Mothers" Altered Maternities Notes Bibliography Index
Lisa Guenther is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
"Guenther presents an original, compelling, and lucid analysis of birth as a gilt that, if given rather than forced, grounds subjectivity, plurality, and ethical sociality. This is a groundbreaking work that revises Levinas's ethics for feminist reproductive politics, and it will have a significant impact on key debates in existential phenomenology, feminist theory, bioethics, and biopolitics." -- Rosalyn Diprose, author of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levina
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