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Fixing Gender
Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
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2011
Summary
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender perpetuates, both made visible by psychoanalysis, this book asks: Is gender always fixed? Can the system which is produced by, and which produces, gender be altered? Can gender be fixed? The work begins by sketching the implications of gender as elucidated by feminist thinkers in general and feminist psychoanalytic thinkers in particular. Moving to Freud's theory of the subject, the work examines the logic of the Oedipus complex, and from there it looks at what feminist object relations theorists have done with and to the logic of the Oedipus complex. The book then moves to the literature on lesbian family functioning; and finally the work ends with a radical interrogation into the possibilities enabled by paying attention to form, and highlighting its constitutive possibilities.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-030-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-031-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
152
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
2 After Oedipus (Antigone’s Choice) No access Pages 21 - 50
3 “The Key to a Way Out of Our Gender Predicament”? Feminist Responses to the Oedipus Complex No access Pages 51 - 80
4 Lesbian-Mother Families (Definitions and Declarations) No access Pages 81 - 106
5 Choose Your Own Adventure No access Pages 107 - 122
Last Words No access Pages 123 - 124
Afterword: “The South African Case” No access Pages 125 - 132
