Dear Colleagues,
I want to thank those of you who sent out notice of your latest books.  We experienced a flood at our university a couple of years ago and have the opportunity to rebuild our collection.  I would love to hear from other folks who have recently published work that I can add to our library.

I also have a new book recently out that may be of interest to some of you.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16674-4/mad-mothers-bad-mothers-and-what-a-good-mother-would-do 

 
Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence
Sarah LaChance Adams
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Paper, 272 pages, 
ISBN: 978-0-231-16675-1
$30.00 / £20.50 

April, 2014 
Cloth, 272 pages, 
ISBN: 978-0-231-16674-4
$90.00 / £62.00 

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as “mad” or “bad.” Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. 

Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one’s own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.
Related Subjects
	* Continental/Feminist Philosophy
	* Ethics
	* Women's Studies
 
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Dr. Sarah LaChance Adams
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin, Superior
Co-editor: Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering

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