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Who's that girl? Who's that boy? : clinical practice meets postmodern gender theory / Lynne Layton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Layton, Lynne, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Bending psychoanalysis book series ; v. 2.
- Bending psychoanalysis book series ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity.
- Sex.
- Sex role.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Postmodernism.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hailed on publication as ""an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis"" (James Hansel) and ""an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined"" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? is a major contribution to the postmodern understanding of gender issues.This new edition, under the aegis of the Bending Psychoanalysis Book Series, includes a Foreword by Series Editor Jack Drescher and an Afterword in which Lynne Layton addresses the evolution of her th
- Contents:
- Cover; WHO'S THAT GIRL? WHO'S THAT BOY?: CLINICAL PRACTICE MEETS POSTMODERN GENDER THEORY; Copyright; Contents; Foreword-Who's That Analyst?; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Beyond Narcissism: Toward a Negotiation Model of Gender Identity; 3 Gender Benders/Gender Binders: A Psychoanalytic Look at Contemporary Popular Culture; 4 Who's That Girl?: Madonna; 5 Trauma, Gender Identity, and Sexuality: Discourses of Fragmentation; 6 Blue Velvet: A Parable of Male Development; 7 What Is a Man? Postmodern Challenges to Clinical Practice; 8 A Deconstruction of Kohut's Concept of Self
- 9 Performance Theory, Act 3: The Doer Behind the Deed Gets DepressedAfterword; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-269) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-89143-5
- 0-203-72809-2
- 1-299-48022-5
- 1-135-89136-2
- 9780203728093
- OCLC:
- 842264787
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