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MAP Lecture Series: Mad Mothers with Dr. Sarah LaChance Adams
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other.
Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference
between one's own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.
Dr. Sarah LaChance Adams graduated from the MAP program at Seattle University in 2004. She went on to receive her PhD in philosophy at University of Oregon in 2011. She is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Superior where she teaches a wide variety of courses in philosophy and gender studies including: Philosophies of Love and Sex, Philosophy of Children, Philosophies of Mothering, and Teaching for Social Justice. Her research interests include Philosophical Psychology, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, and Existential-Phenomenology. She currently lives in Duluth Minnesota.
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LocationSeattle University Student Center Rm 130 (View)
901 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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