(P/B) MOTHERHOOD IN THE 21st CENTURY

Παρουσίαση

"Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century" is a remarkable collection of essays whose contributors, invited by the editor, Alcira Mariam Alizade, from many different countries, each explore different dimensions of motherhood today, which, as the editor emphasizes, "cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations." Moreover, Alizade underlines the importance of recognizing that woman's psychic organization is independent of its maternal function thus implying a necessary dissociation of femininity from motherhood. The essays cover divergent themes ranging from new methods of conception and 'artificial pregnancy' to questions raised by the mother-daughter relationship and the many reasons for desiring, or not desiring, a child. The editor expresses the wish that this book will open onto new perspectives regarding motherhood and provide a thought-provoking instrument for all psychoanalysts. To this wish I would add that her book will also stimulate reflection in all women from whatever walk of life.' (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

FOREWORD- Alcira Mariam Alizade
CONTRIBUTORS
CHAPTER ONE
Motherhood is unending
Ruth F. Lax
CHAPTER TWO
The twenty-first century: what changes?
Giovanna Ambrosio
CHAPTER THREE
Motherhood in a fertile new world
Diane Ehrensaft
CHAPTER FOUR
Artificial pregnancy
Jacqueline Amati Mehler
CHAPTER FIVE
The non-maternal psychic space
Alcira Mariam Alizade
CHAPTER SIX
Why do you want to have a child?
Estela V. Welldon
CHAPTER SEVEN
The place of motherhood in primary femininity
Emilce Dio Bleichmar
CHAPTER EIGHT
Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents
Toni Vaughn Heineman
CHAPTER NINE
Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother-daughter relationship
Florence Guignard
CHAPTER TEN
The parents, the baby, and the high-tech stork
Fanny Blanck-Cereijido
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Motherhood and work
Herta E. Harsch
CHAPTER TWELVE
The bodies of present-day maternity
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations
Joan Raphael-Leff
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory
Teresa Lartigue
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis
Sylvie Faure-Pragier
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The impossible being of the mother
Alicia Leisse de Lustgarten
REFERENCES
INDEX