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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163875203321

Titolo

A womb of her own : women's struggle for sexual and reproductive autonomy / / edited by Ellen Toronto, JoAnn Ponder, Kristin Davisson and Maurine Kelber Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-53255-7

1-315-53257-3

1-315-53256-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

155.3/33

Soggetti

Sex (Psychology)

Women and psychoanalysis

Gender identity - Psychological aspects

Feminist therapy

Motherhood

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Ellen L. K. Toronto -- A culture of oppression -- Gender inequality in a (still) binary world / Ellen L. K. Toronto -- Feminism : a revolutionary call about female sexuality / Doris Silverman -- "We're (not) pregnant" : gay men and women's reproductive rights / Richard Ruth -- Response to section one / Marilyn Metzl -- Women and sexual trauma -- Date rape and the demon-lover complex : the devine, the deviant, and the diabolical in male/female politics / Susan Kavaler-Adler -- Secondary sexual trauma of women : female witnesses / Kristin Davisson -- Chasing justice : by stander intervention and restorative justice in the contexts of college campuses and psychoanalytic institutes / Katie Gentile -- Women defining motherhood -- Childfree women : surviving the pushback and forming an identity in the internet era / Adi Avivi -- A perfect birth : the birth rights movement and the idealization of birth / Helena Vissing -- From infertility and empty womb to maternal



fulfillment : the psychological birth of the adoptive mother / JoAnn Ponder -- Mother as therapist / Therapist as Mother -- Too soft, too warm, too maternal : what is good enough? / Meredith Darcy -- Get a grip : how a psychotherapist's postpartum depression disrupted the illusion of the idealized mother and changed forever what it means to "hold" / Kristin Reale.