Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Toronto, Ellen L. K.
• Ponder, JoAnn
• Davisson, Kristin
• Kelber Kelly, Maurine

Description

xix, 243 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women's identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors explore the ways in which women's sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, and how as the "other", they can be the focus of mistreatment such as rape, sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing societal repression. They also explore the cultural definitions of motherhood, and how these set narrow definitions for the acceptable face of motherhood and for being a woman generally.

Subjects

• Women > psychology
• Sex (Psychology)
• Feminist therapy
• Gender identity > Psychological aspects
• Women and psychoanalysis
• Women's Rights
• Schwangerschaft
• Culture
• Sexualpsychologie
• Frau
• Sexuality > psychology
• Sexualität
• Reproductive Rights
• Gender Identity
• Motherhood
• Rape
• Gleichberechtigung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-6315

ISBN

• 9781138194960
• 1138194964
• 9781138194977
• 1138194972

LCCN

2016033813

OCLC

961923625

Title

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

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Toronto, Ellen L. K., editor.

Ponder, JoAnn, editor.

Davisson, Kristin, editor.

Kelber Kelly, Maurine, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6315