In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and

Essays discuss the relations among gender, self, and society, the significance of women's mothering for gender personality and gender relations, and how the psy

With Sigmund Freud notoriously flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this

In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition

Originally published: [London]: Allen Lane, [1974]