Abstract
Using Beauvoir’s existentialist and phenomenological ideas, this piece reflects on the embodied experience of childbirth, offering an alternative to the essentialist/postmodern dilemma concerning the feminist analysis of labor. When lived as an intense, embodied, painful experience, childbirth can be viewed as an empowering experience not in essentialist, but in phenomenological-existentialist terms: an experience that (in Beauvoirian language) perfectly conjoins the immanent with the transcendent to create a “project of subjectivity.”.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 134-145 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118795996 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118796023 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities