Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century

Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.

• CHAPTER ONE Motherhood is unending CHAPTER TWO The twenty-first century: what changes?CHAPTER THREE Motherhood in a fertile new world CHAPTER FOUR Artificial pregnancy CHAPTER FIVE The non-maternal psychic space CHAPTER SIX Why do you want to have a child? CHAPTER SEVEN The place of motherhood in primary femininity CHAPTER EIGHT Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents CHAPTER NINE Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother-daughter relationship CHAPTER TEN The parents, the baby, and the high-tech stork CHAPTER ELEVEN Motherhood and work CHAPTER TWELVE The bodies of present-day maternity CHAPTER THIRTEEN New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations CHAPTER FOURTEEN Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory CHAPTER FIFTEEN New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis CHAPTER SIXTEEN The impossible being of the mother.