This book introduces the experience and process of gestation into the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida as a feminist project of maternal emancipation.

Jane Lymer is a research fellow in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Part One: Feminism and the Maternal/ 1. Representing Gravidity/ 2. Maternal Hospitality, Ethics and Ontology/ Part Two: The Ontology of Gravidity/ 3. Gestational Accouplement/ 4. Alterity and Maternal Flesh / Part Three: Gestational Hospitality/ 5. Medical Hospitality/ 6. Gestational Identity and a Feminist Manifesto/ Part Four: The Phenomenology of Gravidity/ 7. The Politics of Gravidity- Bonding and Attachment/ 8. Rethinking the Gestational Relation / References / Notes / Index