Motherhood in the twenty-first century / edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alizade, Alcira Mariam.

International Psycho-Analytical Association. Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis.

Series:

Psychoanalysis & women series.

Psychoanalysis & women series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Motherhood--Cross-cultural studies.

Motherhood--Social aspects.

Motherhood--Psychological aspects.

Mothers--Social conditions--21st century.

Mothers.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Motherhood in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 that have nowadays become possible thanks to new reproductive techniques, shared motherhood, surrogate motherhood, sublimated motherhood, perverse motherhood. 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 with respect to the role and function of women as mothers. The contributors to this book, from an array of different cultural backgrounds, draw on these developments to consider the issue of motherhood in the twenty-first century, from fascinating and varied viewpoints. This book takes a fresh look at women in their maternal role. In the modern age, 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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER ONE Motherhood is unending; CHAPTER TWO The twenty-first century: what changes?; CHAPTER THREE Motherhood in a fertile new world; CHAPTER FOUR Artificial pregnancy; CHAPTER FIVE The non-maternal psychic space; CHAPTER SIX Why do you want to have a child?; CHAPTER SEVEN The place of motherhood in primary femininity; CHAPTER EIGHT Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents; CHAPTER NINE Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother-daughter relationship

CHAPTER TEN The parents, the baby, and the high-tech storkCHAPTER ELEVEN Motherhood and work; CHAPTER TWELVE The bodies of present-day maternity; CHAPTER THIRTEEN New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory; CHAPTER FIFTEEN New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SIXTEEN The impossible being of the mother; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"A volume in the Psychoanalysis & women series, for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91635-3

0-429-90212-3

0-429-47735-X

1-283-06899-0

9786613068996

1-84940-501-8

9780429477355

OCLC:

723945212