 Of special pertinence for topics concerning women and gender in everyday aesthetics is the rise of attention to a subject absent in previous philosophies: pregnancy and motherhood—topics also explored in contemporary feminist and postfeminist art, as noted above (Lintott and Sander-Staudt 2011). The aesthetics of the body here explores the maternal body, its changes during pregnancy, birth, and nursing, and the everyday demands of parenthood, within and among which feminists have explored the beautiful, the sublime, the novel and unsettling, the comforting and tranquil—as manifest in the events and activities one encounters every day. The area of inquiry here is not the depiction of these subjects in art or literature, or their dramatization in theater or film, but the aesthetics of the lived experience itself. Raising children has an inevitable sensuousness that provides its own aesthetic dimensions, and sometimes what is off-putting or disgusting to others becomes part of the relationship of mother to child (Irvin 2011). Attending to the intimacy of sensation and to the presentation of one’s own body serves to detach theorizing in aesthetics away from art worlds and to everyday practice, and theory has expanded accordingly. In such ways are traditional philosophical categories modified and adapted as feminist perspectives continue to probe the dimensions of the aesthetic.