A Semiotic Ontology of Motherhood: Intersectional Bodies as Spaces of Transformative Resistance

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This book uses C.S. Peirces idea that memory constructs a semiotic picture of the self to suggest that motherhood can be conceived as an immigrant identity: both involve a culturally and internally disruptive transition. Aisha Raees provides an exegesis of Peirces work and builds a picture of how perception and the active constitution of thought deliver a sense of identity dependent on memory as well as on the value and power of hope. The book also explores the role of trauma in the creation of self as process of memory. In developing an empowering conception of the ontological condition of motherhood, it draws out how self can negotiate duality within identity in circumstances where belonging is not tied to physical place and how it unfolds both in the new community and in the ones left behind.

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Aisha Raees is clinical assistant professor of philosophy at Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago, USA.