Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption

by Lisa Baraitser

Book Overview

Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award

Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However, although motherhood can catapult us into a state of internal disarray, it can also provide us with a unique chance to make ourselves anew. How...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415455014
• ISBN13: 9780415455015
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"