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.

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

'Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century is a remarkable collection of essays whose contributors, invited by the editor, Alcira Mariam Alizade, from many different countries, each explore different dimensions of motherhood today, which, as the editor emphasizes, 'cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations.' Moreover, Alizade underlines the importance of recognizing that woman's psychic organization is independent of its maternal function thus implying a necessary dissociation of femininity from motherhood. The essays cover divergent themes ranging from new methods of conception and 'artificial pregnancy' to questions raised by the mother-daughter relationship and the many reasons for desiring, or not desiring, a child. The editor expresses the wish that this book will open onto new perspectives regarding motherhood and provide a thought-provoking instrument for all psychoanalysts. To this wish I would add that her book will also stimulate reflection in all women from whatever walk of life.'- Joyce McDougall, D.Ed. Supervisory and Training Analyst to the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and Institute

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.

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

'Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century is a remarkable collection of essays whose contributors, invited by the editor, Alcira Mariam Alizade, from many different countries, each explore different dimensions of motherhood today, which, as the editor emphasizes, 'cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations.' Moreover, Alizade underlines the importance of recognizing that woman's psychic organization is independent of its maternal function thus implying a necessary dissociation of femininity from motherhood. The essays cover divergent themes ranging from new methods of conception and 'artificial pregnancy' to questions raised by the mother-daughter relationship and the many reasons for desiring, or not desiring, a child. The editor expresses the wish that this book will open onto new perspectives regarding motherhood and provide a thought-provoking instrument for all psychoanalysts. To this wish I would add that her book will also stimulate reflection in all women from whatever walk of life.'- Joyce McDougall, D.Ed. Supervisory and Training Analyst to the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and Institute

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.

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

'Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century is a remarkable collection of essays whose contributors, invited by the editor, Alcira Mariam Alizade, from many different countries, each explore different dimensions of motherhood today, which, as the editor emphasizes, 'cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations.' Moreover, Alizade underlines the importance of recognizing that woman's psychic organization is independent of its maternal function thus implying a necessary dissociation of femininity from motherhood. The essays cover divergent themes ranging from new methods of conception and 'artificial pregnancy' to questions raised by the mother-daughter relationship and the many reasons for desiring, or not desiring, a child. The editor expresses the wish that this book will open onto new perspectives regarding motherhood and provide a thought-provoking instrument for all psychoanalysts. To this wish I would add that her book will also stimulate reflection in all women from whatever walk of life.'- Joyce McDougall, D.Ed. Supervisory and Training Analyst to the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and Institute