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9780203131015

Mothering and Ambivalence

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203131015

  • ISBN10:

    0203131010

  • Copyright: 2002-01-04
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

Brings together feminist and psychoanalytic contributions to the good parenting debate. Authors discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations and examine what it feels like to mother amid the pressures of contemporary life.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
Introduction: crisis in the western familyp. 1
The production and purposes of maternal ambivalencep. 17
Fathers' ambivalence (too)p. 37
The maternal bedp. 54
Mothers and daughters within a changing worldp. 80
Mothers, parenting, gender development and therapyp. 89
The heaven and hell of mothering: mothering and ambivalence in the mass mediap. 111
In the company of women: experiences of working with the lost motherp. 119
Parting is such sweet sorrow: the romantic tragedy of a mother-child relationshipp. 136
Group-analytic psychotherapy: a site for reworking the relationship between mothers and daughtersp. 152
'I wouldn't do your job!': women, social work and child abusep. 167
Indexp. 193
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