Living Values
Maternal Corporal Subjectivity and the Value of Life and Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4872288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miri Rozmarin (0000-0002-2110-9182, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 108-123 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2011.559439 |
| OpenAlex | W2078948375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
The article offers a reading of the Jewish myth of Samson as presenting a set of relations among masculinity, collectivity, and death. Concentrating on the role of women in Samson's life I attempt to decipher some ways in which these relations develop and to explore the role that women and mothers may play in challenging them. Building on Luce Irigaray, what I highlight in my reading of Samson's story is the process whereby attachment to life appears as a possible guiding principle but is at the same time negated and cancelled. I present attachment to life not only as a form of desire but also as a specific kind of ethicality inherent in life itself
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Masculinity · Mythology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |