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Motherhood and Sexuality: Some Feminist Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ann Ferguson
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Abstract

This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power.

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Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 1 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Motherhood and Sexuality , Fall 1986 , pp. 3 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 by Hypatia, Inc.

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