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Parenting, lone motherhood and the breakdown of the family ae all subjects of current political and social debate in the West, and there is little agreement among cultural commentators on what mothers should be, what children need, and how those needs conflict with the needs of parents. Feminists have played a large part in these debates in recent years, reacting particularly to negative portrayal of lone mothers in the press and the implications thay they are the source of other social problems.Mothering and Ambivalence brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to address these issues, but counters the reluctance of current feminist literature to embrace psychoanalytic understandings of dependency, anxiety and identity. Drawing on extensive professional experience the contributors use psychoanalysis to go beyond the often simplistic claims of the political debate to mothering. In their discussions of parenting and gender relations within families, the authors also surmount the narrowness of purely feminist polemics, keeping in view the importance of the diverse identities for women who become mothers.
For all who are frustrated with the polarised debate about women's and children's needs and rights, this book offers and intersubjective approach to the emotional life of mothers, examining what it feels like to mother amid the pressures of contemporary social life.
Subject categories
- Academic > Sociology > The Family. Marriage. Women > Women. Feminism
- Psychology & Psychiatry > Psychoanalysis
- Social Science > Social Work
- Social Science > Women's Studies
- Family & Relationships > Parenting
- Family & Relationships > Family Relationships
- Family & Relationships > Divorce
- Family & Relationships > Marriage
- Family & Relationships > Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Family & Relationships > Adoption
- Medical
ISBNs
9781134771721
9781134771714
9780415139106
9780203131015
0203131010

