A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy

Editor : Ellen Toronto, Editor : Joann Ponder, Editor : Kristin Davisson, Editor : Maurine Kelber Kelly

A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2017
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 272
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 39574
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138194977
  • ISBN 10 : 1138194972

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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. 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.

About the Editor(s)

Ellen Toronto is an author and psychoanalyst practicing in Spring, Texas. She has published extensively on gender issues and non-verbal communication. She is first editor of Into the Void: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Gender-Free Case and A Womb of Her Own. She and her husband have four sons and eleven grandchildren.

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