Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood

ISBN-13: 9781855753419 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 180 str.

Estela V. Welldon

Opis

To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and illuminating contribution to the field.

Welldon explores why the quality of their bodies is fundamental to women's psychology; how this may lead to self-mutilation; and how such perverse behavior may also be aimed at objects which women see as their own creations, specifically, their babies. The potential causes and consequences of these conditions, including maternal and paternal incest and its frequent aftermath, prostitution, are also discussed.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Female Sexual Perversion -- Sexuality and the Female Body -- The Power of the Womb -- Motherhood as a Perversion -- Mothers who Commit Incest: -- The Symbolic Mother as a Whore: -- Substitute Motherhood The Whore as an Incest Survivor: -- Epilogue

O autorze

V. Welldon, Estela