Vacant wombs: feminist challenges to psychoanalytic theories of childless women
@article{Hird2003VacantWF, title={Vacant wombs: feminist challenges to psychoanalytic theories of childless women}, author={Myra J. Hird}, journal={Feminist Review}, year={2003}, volume={75}, pages={5-19} }
abstractThis paper concerns a theoretical struggle to situate childless women within contemporary feminist debates about gender, the body and sexuality. Although psychoanalytic theory offers a compelling approach to the body, a Freudian account of childless women has largely escaped investigation. This paper will provide such an analysis, arguing that competing interpretations of psychoanalytic theory reveal a salient tension in the interpretation of gender identification. On the one hand, some…
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