Robin May Schott is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (Holocaust and Genocide). She is editor of Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (IUP, 2007).

"I know of no other philosophical work that relates birth and death with sustained, in-depth treatment and connects them to the work of major philosophers."—Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin–Madison"For feminist scholars across the disciplines."—Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Birth, Death, and Femininity / Robin May SchottPart 1. Politics of Community2. Sexual Violence, Sacrifice, and Narratives of Political Origins / Robin May Schott3. Natality and Destruction: Arendtian Reflections on War Rape / Robin May SchottPart 2. Phenomenologies of Mortality and Generativity4. The Sexed Self and the Mortal Body / Sara Heinämaa5. Being toward Death / Sara Heinämaa6. Future and Others / Sara HeinämaaPart 3. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life7. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Birth / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir8. The Natal Self / Sigridur ThorgeirsdottirPart 4. An Ancient Tragedy9. Antigone and the Deadly Desire for Sameness: Reflections on Origins and Death / Vigdis Songe-MøllerNotes on ContributorsIndex

Robin May Schott is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (Holocaust and Genocide). She is editor of Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (IUP, 2007).

"I know of no other philosophical work that relates birth and death with sustained, in-depth treatment and connects them to the work of major philosophers."—Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin–Madison"For feminist scholars across the disciplines."—Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Birth, Death, and Femininity / Robin May SchottPart 1. Politics of Community2. Sexual Violence, Sacrifice, and Narratives of Political Origins / Robin May Schott3. Natality and Destruction: Arendtian Reflections on War Rape / Robin May SchottPart 2. Phenomenologies of Mortality and Generativity4. The Sexed Self and the Mortal Body / Sara Heinämaa5. Being toward Death / Sara Heinämaa6. Future and Others / Sara HeinämaaPart 3. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life7. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Birth / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir8. The Natal Self / Sigridur ThorgeirsdottirPart 4. An Ancient Tragedy9. Antigone and the Deadly Desire for Sameness: Reflections on Origins and Death / Vigdis Songe-MøllerNotes on ContributorsIndex

Robin May Schott is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (Holocaust and Genocide). She is editor of Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (IUP, 2007).

"I know of no other philosophical work that relates birth and death with sustained, in-depth treatment and connects them to the work of major philosophers."—Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin–Madison"For feminist scholars across the disciplines."—Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Birth, Death, and Femininity / Robin May SchottPart 1. Politics of Community2. Sexual Violence, Sacrifice, and Narratives of Political Origins / Robin May Schott3. Natality and Destruction: Arendtian Reflections on War Rape / Robin May SchottPart 2. Phenomenologies of Mortality and Generativity4. The Sexed Self and the Mortal Body / Sara Heinämaa5. Being toward Death / Sara Heinämaa6. Future and Others / Sara HeinämaaPart 3. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life7. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Birth / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir8. The Natal Self / Sigridur ThorgeirsdottirPart 4. An Ancient Tragedy9. Antigone and the Deadly Desire for Sameness: Reflections on Origins and Death / Vigdis Songe-MøllerNotes on ContributorsIndex