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On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal

On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal

Anidjar, Gil

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Religion General General ParentingWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0231216440
ISBN13: 9780231216449
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Nov 19 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal.

In a series of finely woven meditations on slavery, sovereignty, and the social contract, this book places mothers and mothering at the crux of political thought. Anidjar identifies a maternal sovereignty and a maternal contract, showing that without motherhood, there could be no constitution, preservation, or reproduction of collective existence in time. And maternal power is also power over life and death, as he reveals through a nuanced consideration of abortion.

Through the concept of the maternal, Anidjar offers new insights into abiding sources from the Bible and ancient Greece to classical and modern political philosophy--the story of Hagar and Sarah, Oedipus and his two mothers, Hegel's dialectic of master and slave--reinterpreted in light of Black and feminist criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and autotheoretical reflection. Elegantly written and provocative, On the Sovereignty of Mothers offers the maternal as a new frame for understanding the political order.

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