Selfishness and Selflessness

New Approaches to Understanding Morality

AvLinda L. Layne

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection. Contributions range from an examination of how these concepts animated the eighteenth-century anti-slavery campaigners to a dissection of the way middle-class mothers’ experiences illustrate gendered struggles over how much and to whom one is morally obliged to give.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789205497

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Linda L. Layne is the author of Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan (1994, Princeton University Press) and Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (2003, Routledge) and co-producer of a television series on pregnancy loss. She has edited or co-edited numerous volumes on motherhood, parenting and consumer culture. She now studies heterosexual single mothers by choice, lesbian moms and gay dads.

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“This is a fascinating and timely collection that throws a much-needed light on the idea and practice of selfishness and selflessness. In so doing, it follows the moral turn in the humanities and the social sciences to its logical conclusion: the writing of a social history and an ethnography of moralities.” • Mark Roodhouse, University of York

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations, Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Self, Selfish, SelflessLinda L. LayneChapter 1. Taking the Measure of ‘Selfishness’ and ‘Selflessness’ in the Early Twenty-First-Century US and UKLinda L. LayneChapter 2. ‘Sentiment Has Struggled with Selfishness’: Selfishness, Sensibility and Gender in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Antislavery CampaignG.J. Barker-BenfieldChapter 3. Selfless Advocacy? Profeminist Men’s Movements in Late Twentieth-Century BritainLucy DelapChapter 4. ‘Doing the Right Thing for My Child’: Self Work and Selflessness in Accounts of British ‘Full-Term’ Breastfeeding MothersCharlotte FairclothChapter 5. Sexism, Separatism and the Rhetoric of Selfishness: Single Mothers by Choice in the US and UKSusanna Graham and Linda L. LayneChapter 6. Selfish Masturbators? The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish/Selfless DivideSebastian MohrChapter 7. Inroads into AltruismMarilyn StrathernChapter 8. On Being Selfish – Or Not: Explorations of an Idea from the Mountains of Oaxaca and the Alaskan TundraBarbara BodenhornConclusion: Starting Points: Modest Contributions to the History and Anthropology of Moralities and EthicsLinda L. LayneIndex