The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering

by Patrice Diquinzio

An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and oppression of women, especially the view that all women should be mothers, want to be mothers, and are most happy being mothers. This book considers how thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415910234
• ISBN13: 9780415910231
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"