The Embodied Female

Alizade, Mariam

Foreword -- Psychoanalysis of a female homosexual -- The everlasting orgasm -- The fluidity of the female universe and its psychic consequences -- Negotiating the antagonism between feminine and maternal spheres -- Eggs between women—emotional aspects of gamete donation in reproductive technology -- Strangebody -- The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with body narcissism -- The female body has its reasons—but its reasons have a female body -- The challenges and options of menopause -- Baubo: rediscovering woman’s pleasures -- The hidden chamber—a case of fused minor labia