What Do Mothers Want?

The talented contributors to "What Do Mothers Want?" address questions from perspectives that encompass differences in marital status, parental status, gender, and sexual orientation, traversing the biological, psychological, cultural, and economic

Sheila F. Brown

Brown, Introduction. Part I: What Mothers Want and Need.Stern, The Psychic Landscape of Mothers. Balsam, Loving and Hating Mothers and Daughters: Thoughts on the Role of Their Physicality. Benjamin, What Mothers and Babies Need: The Maternal Third and Its Presence in Clinical Work. Herzog, What Fathers Do and How They Do It. Ruddick, What Do Mothers and Grandmothers Know and Want? Drescher, Glazer, Crespi, & Schwartz, What Is a Mother? Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Parenting. Schwartz, It's A(p)Parent: New Family Narratives Needed. Gensler, Safran, What Does a Mother Want and Need from Her Child's Therapist? Part II: Women's Bodies: Choices and Dilemmas.Chodorow, "Too Late": Ambivalence about Motherhood, Choice, and Time. Kofman, Imber, Pregnancy. Rosen, Facts and Fantasies about Infertility. Petrucelli, Stuart, Layers upon Layers: The Complicated Terrain of Eating Disorders and the Mother-Child Relationship. Part III: Pulling It All Together.Lazarre, Listen to My Words: Maternal Life in Colors and Cycles of Time. Cowan, Cowan, To Be Partners and Parents: The Challenge for Couples Who Are Parents.