Mothering and ambivalence /

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Children's rights, lone motherhood and the breakdown of families are all issues at the forefront of current social debate in the West, with little agreement on what constitutes good parenting, or how the needs of both mother and child are best met. The feminist contribution to this debate is pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hollway, Wendy (Editor), Featherstone, Brid (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Motherhood > Psychological aspects.
Mothers > Psychology.
Mother and child.
Ambivalence.
Women and psychoanalysis.
Parenting.
Mother-Child Relations
Parenting
Maternité > Aspect psychologique.
Mères > Psychologie.
Mère et enfant.
Femmes et psychanalyse.
Rôle parental.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Ambivalence
Mother and child
Motherhood > Psychological aspects
Mothers > Psychology
Women and psychoanalysis
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : crisis in the western family / Brid Featherstone
  • 2. The production and purposes of maternal ambivalence / Rozsika Parker
  • 3. Fathers' ambivalence (too) / Stephen Frosh
  • 4. The maternal bed / Wendy Hollway
  • 5. Mothers and daughters within a changing world / Sheila Ernst
  • 6. Mothers, parenting, gender development and therapy / Susie Orbach talking to Wendy Hollway
  • 7. The heaven and hell of mothering : mothering and ambivalence in the mass media / Ros Coward
  • 8. In the company of women : experiences of working with the lost mother / Paddy Maynes and Joanna Best
  • 9. Parting is such sweet sorrow : the romantic tragedy of a mother-child relationship / Caroline Owens
  • 10. Group-analytic psychotherapy : a site for reworking the relationship between mothers and daughters / Sheila Ernst
  • 11. 'I wouldn't do your job!' : women, social work and child abuse / Brid Featherstone.

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