On Birthing and Our First and Second Births: Towards a Feminist Theory of Natality

3. On Birthing and Our First and Second Births: Towards a Feminist Theory of Natality

"Moreover, since action is the political activity par excellence, natality, and not mortality, may be the central category of political, as distinguished from metaphysical, thought (Arendt 1958, 9).

"With word and deed we insert ourselves into the human world and this insertion is like a second birth, in which we confirm and take upon ourselves the naked fact of our original physical appearance" (Arendt 1958, ...