Selfishness and Selflessness

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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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Self, Selfish, Selfless

Linda L. Layne



Chapter 1. Taking the Measure of ‘Selfishness’ and ‘Selflessness’ in the Early Twenty-First-Century US and UK

Linda L. Layne



Chapter 2. ‘Sentiment Has Struggled with Selfishness’: Selfishness, Sensibility and Gender in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Antislavery Campaign

G.J. Barker-Benfield



Chapter 3. Selfless Advocacy? Profeminist Men’s Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

Lucy Delap



Chapter 4. ‘Doing the Right Thing for My Child’: Self Work and Selflessness in Accounts of British ‘Full-Term’ Breastfeeding Mothers

Charlotte Faircloth



Chapter 5. Sexism, Separatism and the Rhetoric of Selfishness: Single Mothers by Choice in the US and UK

Susanna Graham and Linda L. Layne



Chapter 6. Selfish Masturbators? The Experience of Danish Sperm Donors and Alternatives to the Selfish/Selfless Divide

Sebastian Mohr



Chapter 7. Inroads into Altruism

Marilyn Strathern



Chapter 8. On Being Selfish – Or Not: Explorations of an Idea from the Mountains of Oaxaca and the Alaskan Tundra

Barbara Bodenhorn



Conclusion: Starting Points: Modest Contributions to the History and Anthropology of Moralities and Ethics

Linda L. Layne



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