Sexual Subjects

Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis

Adria E. Schwartz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135219710
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age. Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine the construction of important categories of identity--woman, feminist, mother, lesbian, and homo/hetero/bisexual. Schwartz also addresses specific issues which are problematic but nonetheless meaningful to self-identified lesbians such as roles in gender play, lesbian "bed death, " and raising non-traditional families. Written from a psychoanalytic and postmodern perspective, this book is a significant contribution to the work done on the conceptualization of lesbian sexuality and identity.

index

Academie des Femmes, 6

active/clitoral sexuality, 68, 88, 135

adolescence, 35–37, 160, 161

adoption, 114, 120n10, 125, 129–130, 154n7

advertising, 67

aggression, 62

AIDS, 166

Ainsworth, M., 154n13

Alonso, A., 99–100

alternative reproductive technologies (ART). See reproductive technologies

American Psychiatric Association, 9–10

analysands, lesbian, 15, 168–175

See also clinical anecdotes analysis.

See psychoanalysis

analysts. See psychoanalysts

APA. See American Psychiatric Association

aphanisis, 38n3

aristocracy, 36

Aron, L., xiv, 45, 79

ART (alternative reproductive technologies). See reproductive technologies

attachment, 84, 84n6, 145–149, 151–152

attention/memory rules, 84n6, 149

Atwood, M., 133–135

baby, desire for. See reproductive desire

Baby M case, 126–129, 130

Bar Girls, 53–55

Barney, Natalie, 7–8

Bassin, D., 21, 38n4, 79–80, 131–132

bed death, lesbian, xiv, 59–62

Beebe, B., 144, 148

Benedek, T, 94

Benjamin, J., 39n6

gender identity, 21, 29, 69

identification, 28, 76–77, 164

identificatory love, 20, 34

on recognition, 150

on stereotypical families, 141

Bentley, Gladys, 8, 12nn3,–4

biological mothers, 124–125...