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A Womb of Her Own - Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy (Hardcover)
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A Womb of Her Own - Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy (Hardcover)
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Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining
component of women's identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment
and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas,
their status within the human community has remained unstable and
subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a
distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a
psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women's sexual and
reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as
societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of
individual women. It further examines how women have been viewed as
the "other" and thus become the focus of mistreatment such as rape,
sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing
societal repression. Postmodern gender theories have greatly
enhanced understanding of the fluidity of gender and freed women
from repressive stereotypes, but attention has shifted prematurely
from the power differential that continues to exist between men and
women. Before the male/female binary is transcended, the
limitations imposed upon women by the still prevailing patriarchal
order must be addressed. To this end, A Womb of Her Own addresses
issues such as the prevalence of rape culture and its historical
roots; the relationship of the LGBT movement to feminism; current
sexual practices such as sexting and tattooing and their meaning to
women; reproductive issues including infertility; adoption;
postpartum depression and the actual experience of birthing-all
from the perspectives of women. The book also explores the cultural
definitions of motherhood, and how such definitions set exacting
standards both for the acceptable face of motherhood and for women
generally. While women's unique anatomy and biology have
historically contributed to their oppression in a patriarchal
society, it is the exploration and illumination of these
capabilities from their own perspective that will allow women to
claim and control them as their own. Covering a broad, topical
range of contemporary subjects, A Womb of Her Own will appeal to
psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as
scholars and students of gender and women's studies.
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