Description
In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks.
The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize ‘different’ lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine.
Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women’s studies.
Table of Contents
Section I
1. "What do Women Want Today?"
Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D.
2.Authority, Power and Gender in Institutional Life
Virginia Ungar, M.D.
Section II: "Current Theories about the Feminine"
3.Liberating "Female" from "Femininity": Helene Deutsch and the Past to Dianne Elise and the Present
Rosemary H. Balsam, M.D.
4. The Feminine: Plurality of Desires
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, M.D.
5. What Women Want and What Men Want of Women
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.
Section III: Gender Relations Today
6: Gender Relations Today
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.
7: Women and Psychoanalysis across Generations and Diversities. What do Women want Now: Not Answers but Questions
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., Kirsten Lentz, Shubha Herlekar, June Lee Kwon, Romy Reading, Julie Leavitt
8: The Persistent Impact of Stereotypes About Women
Cecile R. Bassen, M.D.
9: "What Should a Wife Want?"
Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D.
Section IV: Psychoanalysis in the Community
10: Opening Space for Women to Dream and Symbolize when Facing Misogyny: the Need for an Active Bystander Witness
Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.
11: What Do Women Want? Let Our Voices Be Heard
Adriana Prengler, FIPA
Section V: Contemporary Feminine Scenarios
12: The Maternal-Feminine: Scenarios in Transformation Psychoanalysis and Gender Perspectives Patricia Alkolombre, Ph.D.
13: Self-Agency in the Feminine: What Females Need Today.
Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D.
Concluding remarks: What do women what today?
Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D., Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., and Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.
