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Fixing Gender: Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781611470307
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Social Science, Psychology
- Publication Name
- Fixing Gender : Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Subject
- Movements / Psychoanalysis, Alternative Family, Gender Studies, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Sociology / Marriage & Family, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 15.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-10
1611470307
ISBN-13
9781611470307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99518045
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Publication Name
Fixing Gender : Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Alternative Family, Gender Studies, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Sociology / Marriage & Family, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-014467
Reviews
Informed by Freud's Oedipus complex, feminist psychoanalysis, and relational theory, this book explores the subjective possibilities and impossibilities of being a "lesbian mother." The book has numerous strengths. Distiller (English, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) does a fine job of discerning and critiquing the inevitable intersections of sex, gender, and sexuality; describing the dilemmas surrounding recognition as lesbian, mother, and lesbian mother; illustrating the roles of others and the impact of others' evaluations of lesbian co-parent family life; and highlighting the paradoxes of being a "mother" (an identity riddled with gendered and heterosexual assumptions), a "lesbian" (an identity often perceived in conflict with or in contrast to being a mother), and an "other mother." The "other mother" identity marks both the legitimacy of a lesbian parent and her difference, especially in contexts infused with assumptions of heterosexual mothering. The author concludes by suggesting ways to embody lesbian motherhood differently--at the same time cautiously noting how different kinds of embodiment can simultaneously perpetuate and deviate from gendered and heterosexual parenting norms. The writing style is accessible and appropriate for those familiar with psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals., Informed by Freud's Oedipus complex, feminist psychoanalysis, and relational theory, this book explores the subjective possibilities and impossibilities of being a 'lesbian mother.' It does a fine job of discerning and critiquing the inevitable intersections of sex, gender, and sexuality; describing the dilemmas surrounding recognition as lesbian, mother, and lesbian mother; illustrating the roles of others and the impact of others' evaluations of lesbian co-parent family life; and highlighting the paradoxes of being a 'mother,' a 'lesbian,' and an 'other mother.' Summing Up: Highly recommended
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
306.874/308664
Table Of Content
1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Chapter One: Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter Two: After Oedipis (Antigone's choice) Chapter 4 Chapter Three: "The key to a way out of our gender predicament"?: feminist responses to the Oedipus Complex Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Lesbian Mother Families (definitions and declarations) Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Choose Your Own Adventure 7 Last Words 8 Afterword 9 Works Cited 10 Index 11 About the Author
Synopsis
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender perpetuates, both made visible by psychoanalysis, this book asks: Is gender always fixed? Can the system which is produced by, and which produces, gender be altered? Can gender be fixed? The work begins by sketching the implications of gender as elucidated by feminist thinkers in general and feminist psychoanalytic thinkers in particular. Moving to Freud's theory of the subject, the work examines the logic of the Oedipus complex, and from there it looks at what feminist object relations theorists have done with and to the logic of the Oedipus complex. The book then moves to the literature on lesbian family functioning; and finally the work ends with a radical interrogation into the possibilities enabled by paying attention to form, and highlighting its constitutive possibilities., Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. The book engages with feminist psychoanalytic debates about gender development and the role played by the Oedipus complex in the formation of gender identity. Through an examination of literature on homosexuality and pyschoanalysis, it offers a new intervention into the conceptualization and work of gender while using lesbian motherhood as a focal point for the discussion.
LC Classification Number
HQ75.53.D57 2011
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