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The Ethics of Ambivalence: Maternity, Intersubjectivity and Ethics in Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir

Adams, Sarah LaChance, 1975- (University of Oregon, 2011-06)

My dissertation is an existential-phenomenological account of human relations and ethics in dialogue with feminist care ethics. Using the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir, I describe ...
Examining Motherhood as a Force for Cognitive Plasticity

Mowery, Alia (University of Oregon, 2015-06)

New mothers face significant learning requirements, and must develop skills necessary for their infant’s survival. Perhaps the hormonal changes that presage birth, and are maintained by breastfeeding, enhance mothers’ ...
Martial Motherhood in Modern Japan, 1905-1955

Maxson, Hillary (University of Oregon, 2012)

Over the course of forty years, from 1905-1945, Japan's Ministry of Education successfully formed, propagated, and invented the martial mother tradition. The stories compiled in the Ministry of Education's textbooks taught ...