Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy 1st edition

In this text, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or an autonomous subject.