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Contents
List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
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
Index
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Edited by Linda L. Layne
244 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-549-7 Hb Published (April 2020)
eISBN 978-1-80539-908-7 eBook