The last two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and meaning. The feminist analytic thinkers whose work is collected here confront the meaning established by the assignment of gender and the uncertainty created by its absence. The articles brought together in "Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free" "Case: Into the Void" address a cross-section of...
The last two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of ...
Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women s sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how...
Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Althoug...
Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women s sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how...
Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Althoug...
