The Status of Women

Vivian B. Pender, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training Psychoanalyst at Columbia University. At the UN she represents the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Until 2011, she chaired the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. She is the current Chair of the NGO Committee on Mental Health, and a volunteer Asylum Evaluator for Physicians for Human Rights. She is the author of journal articles and a book chapter on affect, motivation, pregnancy, female psychology and women's health. She produced four documentaries of conferences at the United Nations on mental health, human rights and violence.

Series Editor’S Foreword -- Introduction -- A woman surgeon: her story -- Simone de Beauvoir and the trauma of sexism -- “Pure heroines” on campus: new wave feminism and popular culture -- Pregnancy: a clinical and cultural experience of pregnancy in the Middle East and North America -- Women and migration: “children on the move” -- Women and power: a developmental perspective -- Maternal genealogy: narcissistic identification in three generations of women -- Abuse of women: relation to the maternal representation -- Atrocities against mother and child re-presented in the psychoanalytic space -- Machismo and the limits of male heterosexuality -- Women and activism: a long history, a complex problem