Mothering and Ambivalence

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ISBN: 9780203131015 | 0203131010
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Copyright: 1/4/2002

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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.

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