Studies on Femininity

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 -- A particular kind of anxiety in women—it’s nothing at all, really … (and doubly so) -- The first lipstick: the fear of femininity in parents of adolescent girls -- “Too late”: ambivalence about motherhood, choice, and time -- A “pause” for changing life: climacteric change and menopause -- Gender and affect -- The ambiguity of bisexuality in psychoanalysis -- The woman clinician in clinical work with infants and adults -- The “green continent”: the constitution of femininity in a clinical case -- A clandestine identity: pathways of contemporary femininity 1