Lisa Guenther is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Gift of the Other

A Feminist Approach to Levinas
A Levinasian Approach to Feminism
Birth, Time, Ethics

1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir's Account of Reproduction

Take 1: Birth as a Project
Take 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation

2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction

Vita Activa: Labor, Work, Action
The Temporality of Action: Promise and Forgiveness
Thinking Through Natality
Reproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt

3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other

Derrida and the Gift of the Impossible
Cixous and the Gift of the Feminine
Levinas and the Gift of Hospitality
I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos
You are welcome: From oikos to ethos

4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity

Paternity as Infinite Discontinuity
Otherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading Levinas
From Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 49

5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations

Time and the Maternal Body
Ethics and Herethics
Moses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:12

6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice

Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla Cornell
Levinas Between Ethics and Politics
Ethics, Politics, and the Prospect of "Unborn Mothers" 
Altered Maternities

Notes
Bibliography
Index