Cover; Being Born: Birth And Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Towards A Philosophy Of Being Born; I. Main Themes; Ii. Intellectual Sources And Location Of This Inquiry; Iii. Chapter Synopsis; Notes; 1: Birth And Natality In Feminist Philosophy; I. Irigaray, Sexual Difference, And Matricide; Ii. The Forgetting And Remembering Of Maternal Origins; Iii. Appraising Irigaray's Ideas; Iv. Cavarero On Natality; V.a Culture Of Death And Violence; Vi. Feminist Thought About Birth: Preliminary Conclusions; Notes; 2: History, Inheritance, And Vulnerability I. Sex, Gender, And Birthii. The Historical Bias Towards Death; Iii. Reception And Inheritance; Iv. Natality And Vulnerability; V. Vulnerability And Negativity; Notes; 3: Dependency, Relationality, Power, And Situatedness; I. Dependency; Ii. Relational Selves; Iii. Power; Iv. Situatedness: A First Sketch; V. Birth, Dependency, And Culture: Summing Up So Far; Notes; 4: The Radical Contingency Of Being Born; I. Why Am I This Particular Individual?; Ii. The Contingency Of Who I Am; Iii. Sartre, Facticity, And Birth; Iv. Nausea And Groundlessness; V. Situatedness, Freedom, And Sense-making; Notes 5: Birth Anxietiesi. Strange To Ourselves; Ii. Psychoanalysis And Birth Anxiety; Iii. Anxiety, Freedom, And Conflicting Attachments; Iv. Anxiety And Wrong Life; Notes; 6: Natality And Mortality; I. Rebalancing Death And Birth; Ii. Relational Death; Iii. Death And The Shared World; Iv. A Brief Engagement With Heidegger; Notes; 7: Temporality, The Gift, And Being Born; I. Temporality; Ii. The Gift Of Birth; Iii. How Natality Structures Our Existence; Notes; Bibliography; Index Alison Stone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.