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Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century by Alcira Mariam Alizade; International Psycho-Analytical Association. Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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

Who reads Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century?

Author

Alcira Mariam Alizade; International Psycho-Analytical Association. Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis

Publisher

Karnac Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849405010

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology