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Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference
By Lynne Huffer
216 pages
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- Stanford University
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Synopsis
This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist theory, arguing that an emancipatory system of thought must move beyond a maternally oriented structure.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- CONTENTS ix
- Mom 1
- INTRODUCTION Maternal Pasts 6
- Nostalgia: The Lost Mother 33
- Chapter 1 Blanchot's Mother 35
- Chapter 2 Lips in the Mirror: Irigaray's Specular Mother 55
- Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other 71
- Chapter 3 Imperialist Nostalgia: Kristeva's Maternal 'Chora' 73
- Chapter 4 Luce 'Et Veritas': Toward an Ethics of Performance 96
- Toward Another Model 115
- Afterword Feminist Futures 117
- 5 CHAPTER From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossard's Urban Fictions 134
- Reference Matter 141
- NOTES 143
- Title Page iii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- CONTENTS ix
- Mom 1
- INTRODUCTION Maternal Pasts 6
- Nostalgia: The Lost Mother 33
- Chapter 1 Blanchot's Mother 35
- Chapter 2 Lips in the Mirror: Irigaray's Specular Mother 55
- Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other 71
- Chapter 3 Imperialist Nostalgia: Kristeva's Maternal 'Chora' 73
- Chapter 4 Luce 'Et Veritas': Toward an Ethics of Performance 96
- Toward Another Model 115
- Afterword Feminist Futures 117
- 5 CHAPTER From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossard's Urban Fictions 134
- Reference Matter 141
- NOTES 143
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 179
- INDEX 195