Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Reading silence; Speaking silence: woman's voice in philosophy; Philosophy: reading denial; Reading psychoanalysis: psychotic texts/maternal pre-texts; Philosophy and silence: The Differend; Unquiet silence: Kristeva reading Marx with Freud; Speaking silence; Kristeva: naming the problem; Collecting mothers: women at the Symposium; Mothers and daughters: speaking; Conclusion: speaking with(in) the symbolic; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Philosophy and the Maternal Body is an invaluable study of the crucial significance of the maternal body in philosophy and is essential reading for all those in gender studies, feminist philosophy, psychoanalytic studies and literature.