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Women, Mothers, Subjects: New Explorations of The Maternal book cover

1st Edition

Women, Mothers, Subjects New Explorations of The Maternal

Edited By Maura Sheehy Copyright 2014
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality , offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorizing about what happens to women when they become mothers. It explores how women are changed and shaped by interaction with their children and the cultural constructs about motherhood in which they are embedded. Distinguished psychoanalysts,... Read more

1. Introduction: Writing of Mothers Maura Sheehy

Part I: Mothers in the Consulting Room

2. Giving Body to Thought: Entwinements Between Women Velleda C. Ceccoli

3. Mothers, Monsters, Mentors Adrienne Harris

4. Lost in a Fog, or "How Difficult Is This MOMMY Stuff, Anyway?" Maura Sheehy

Part II: Maternal Subjectivity

5. Oi Mother, Keep Ye' Hair On! Impossible Transformations of Maternal Subjectivity Lisa Baraitser

6. What Exactly is the Transformation of Motherhood? Commentary on Lisa Baraitser's Paper Daphne de Marneffe

7. Reply to Commentaries Lisa Baraitser

8. Mum's the Word: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and the Maternal Subject Lisa Baraitser

9. Maternal Silence Miri Rozmarin

Part III: Maternality and Writing, Creativity

10. I'm in the Milk and the Milk Is in Me: Writing from the Night Kitchen Donna Bassin

11. Mother-Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity Suzanne Juhasz

Part IV: Maternal Representation in Culture

12. "It Ain't Fittin'": Cinematic and Fantasmatic Contours of Mammy in Gone with the Wind and Beyond Maria St. John

13. What About the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy Katie Gentile

14. What About the Episiotomy? A Response to Katie Gentile's Article, "What About the Baby?" Lynne Zeavin

15. Social Trauma and Models of Ideological Analysis: Commentary on Article by Katie Gentile Lynne Layton

16. Reply to Commentaries: "What About the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy" Katie Gentile

Biography

Maura Sheehy is a psychotherapist in private practice in the USA and a contributor to Studies in Gender and Sexuality. A former staff and freelance writer for major national publications, she has an MA in Cultural Studies and has run a weekly support group for new mothers in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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