Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781855753693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 220 str.

Alcira Mariam Alizade

Opis

This book takes a fresh look at women in their maternal role. In the twenty-first century, with its frenzy and heterogeneity, where the mixture of modernity and post-modernity is not without danger, motherhood cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations.

Psycho-history, the accumulation and variety of psychoanalytic theories of femininity and motherhood, the contribution of gender studies, cross-disciplinary research, and listening to what our patients have to say--all this has yielded, in the past few decades, much controversial data that challenges orthodox classical thinking on the role and function of women as mothers.

Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that, to some extent, subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women; motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy working mothers); teenage motherhood in which there is no true awareness of the maternal function; motherhood in couples of homosexual women; men who take upon themselves the maternal function (men-mothers); complex motherhood by virtue of the multiple variants which have nowadays become possible thanks to new reproductive techniques; shared motherhood; surrogate motherhood; sublimated motherhood; and perverse motherhood.

The Contributors: H. Harsch, Giovanna Ambrosio, Estela Welldon, Toni Heineman, Ehrenfeld Diane, Joan Raphael-Leff, Ruth Axelrod, Leticia Glocer, Sylvie Faure-Pragier, Guignard Florence, Mariam Alizade, Bleichmar Emilce, and Teresa Lartigue Leisse de Lustgarten.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Motherhood is unending -- The twenty-first century: what changes? -- Motherhood in a fertile new world -- Artificial pregnancy -- The non-maternal psychic space -- Why do you want to have a child? -- The place of motherhood in primary femininity -- Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents -- Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother—daughter relationship -- The parents, the baby, and the high-tech stork -- Motherhood and work -- The bodies of present-day maternity -- New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations -- Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory -- New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis -- The impossible being of the mother

O autorze

Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.