Family Values

Subjects Between Nature and Culture

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Kelly Oliver

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This text shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using examples from philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional concepts of maternity which are associated with nature, and our conceptions of paternity which are embedded in culture. Oliver's intervention calls into question the traditional image of the oppositional relationship between nature and culture, maternal and paternal. The text also undercuts recent returns to the rhetoric of a "battle between the sexes" by analyzing the conceptual basis of these descriptions in biological research and the presuppositions of such suggestions in philosophy and psychoanalysis. By developing a reconception of maternity and paternity, the book offers hope for peace in the battle of the sexes. Articulating alternative ways to conceive of ourselves as subjects, and our conceptions of our relations to others, Oliver suggests an innovative approach to ethics or questions of values - family values.

Author Biography:

Kelly Oliver s Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Womanizing Nieztsche: Philosophy's Relation to theFeminine (Routledge, 1995) and Reading Kristeva:Unravelling the Double-bind, and editor of EthicsPolitics and Difference in Kristeva's Writings (Routledge, 1994).

Release date NZ

April 25th, 1997

Author

Kelly Oliver

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

278

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780415913669

Product ID

13178968

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