Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Birth?
Fanny Söderbäck
"A child has been born unto us": Arendt on Birth
Adriana Cavarero (Translated by Silvia Guslandi and Cosette Bruhns)
"An Equivocal Couple Overwhelmed by Life": A Phenomenological Analysis of Pregnancy
Sara Heinämaa
This Birth and That: Surrogacy and Stratified Motherhood in India
Amrita Pande
Negotiating Maternal Identity: Adrienne Rich's Legacy for Inquiry into the Political Philosophical Dimensions of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Candace Johnson
Making Fetal Persons: Fetal Homicide, Ultrasound, and the Normative Significance of Birth
Catherine Mills
Speculative Reproduction: Biotechnologies and Ecologies in Thick Time
Astrida Neimanis