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. 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...