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A womb of her own : women's struggle for sexual and reproductive autonomy / edited by Ellen Toronto, JoAnn Ponder, Kristin Davisson and Maurine Kelber Kelly.

Contributor(s): Toronto, Ellen L. K [editor.] | Ponder, JoAnn [editor.] | Davisson, Kristin [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2017Description: 272 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138194977 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sex (Psychology) | Gender identity -- Psychological aspects | Women and psychoanalysis | Feminist therapy | Motherhood | Psychology | PsychologyDDC classification: 155.3'33 Summary: This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women's sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how as the 'other', they can be the focus of mistreatment such as rape, sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing societal repression.
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This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women's sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how as the 'other', they can be the focus of mistreatment such as rape, sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing societal repression.

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