The Status of Women

B. Pender, Vivian

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