Managing the Monstrous Feminine : Regulating the Reproductive Body

Regulating the Reproductive Body

By: Jane M. Ussher

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Paperback | 1 February 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

Jane Ussher examines the ways in which medicine, science, the law and popular culture combine to produce fictions about femininity, positioning the reproductive body as the source of women's power, danger and weakness.

Including sections on 'regulation', 'the subjectification of women' and 'women's negotiation and resistance', this book describes the construction of the 'monstrous feminine' in mythology, art, literature and film, revealing its implications for the regulation and experience of the fecund female body.

Critical reviews are combined with case studies and extensive interview material to illuminate discussions of subjects including:

the regulation of women through the body
regimes of knowledge associated with reproduction
intersubjectivity and the body
women's narratives of resistance.

These insights into the relation between the construction of the female body and women's subjectivity will be of interest to those studying health psychology, social psychology, medical sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. The book will also appeal to all those looking for a high-level introduction to contemporary feminist thought on the female body.

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'The book is thought provoking and represents an exciting advance in Jane Ussher's scholarship over the past twenty years, initially expressed through her original and challenging accounts of the psychology of the female body and women's madness. Overall there is an upbeat message for women and a rallying cry and inspiration to challenge the 'patriarchal gaze' and its impact on our mental and physical well-being.' - Paula Nicolson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

'This is a terrifically readable account of the wrongs done women by rendering 'the fecund female body' a site of meaningless, monstrous abjection. Together with ways of combating this with examples from Jane Ussher's own personal life, as well as with examples from the visual arts, and from group and individual women's re-telling of their experiences, Managing the Monstrous Feminine does much to render speakable the unspeakable, specifically regarding 'PMS'.' - Janet Sayers, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

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Encounters with Ambivalence and Love

The Menstrual Cycle

Women and Psychology

Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

The Gendered Unconscious

Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?

Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice

The Madness of Women

Myth and Experience

Bodies that Birth

Vitalizing Birth Politics

Women and Depression

Recovery and Resistance

Re-thinking Abortion

Psychology, Gender and the Law

Understanding Depression

Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches

The Capacity to Care

Gender and Ethical Subjectivity

Woman's Relationship with Herself

Gender, Foucault and Therapy

Maternal Encounters

The Ethics of Interruption

Fat Lives

A Feminist Psychological Exploration

Gender, Language and Discourse

Women Andpsychology

The Science/Fiction of Sex

Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex

Accounting for Rape

Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence

'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion

Constructing a Threat of Degeneration

Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence

Beyond Attachment Theory

The Psychological Development of Girls and Women

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Adopted Women and Biological Fathers

Reimagining stories of origin and trauma

Women Voicing Resistance

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Domestic Violence and Psychology

Critical Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

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