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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461776903321

Autore

Balsam Rosemary Marshall

Titolo

Women's bodies in psychoanalysis / / Rosemary M. Balsam ; with a foreword by Nancy Chodorow and Adrienne Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-52122-9

9786613833679

0-203-07832-2

1-135-13702-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

155.3/33

Soggetti

Women and psychoanalysis

Human body

Body image in women

Women - Psychology

Women - Physiology

Psychophysiology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 A language of silence?; Chapter 2 Women talking; Chapter 3 The vanished pregnant body; Chapter 4 The pregnant mother and her daughter's body image; Chapter 5 Childbirth; Chapter 6 Childbirth in vivo; Chapter 7 Anatomy, desire, muscles, and bellies; Chapter 8 Sisters and brothers; Chapter 9 Daughters and sons; Chapter 10 Infant daughters and fathers as primary caretakers; Chapter 11 Some implications for theory; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues



that re-tracing theoretical steps back to the biological body's attributes is fruitful in searching for the clues of our mental development. She shows that the female biological body, across female gender variants and sexual preferences, including the 'vanished pregnant body', has been largely overlooked in