Psychoanalytic explorations of what women want today : femininity, desire and agency / edited by Margarita Cereijido, Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman.

"What do women want today?" / Margarita Cereijido -- Authority, power and gender in institutional life / Virginia Ungar -- Liberating "female" from "femininity" : Helene Deutsch and the past to Dianne Elise and the present / Rosemary H. Balsam -- The feminine : plurality of desires / Leticia Glocer Fiorini -- What women want and what men want of women / Arlene Kramer Richards -- Gender relations today / Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose -- Women and psychoanalysis across generations and diversities. What do women want now : not answers but questions / Adrienne Harris, Kirsten Lentz, Shubha Herlekar, June Lee Kwon, Romy Reading, Julie Leavitt -- The persistent impact of stereotypes about women / Cecile R. Bassen -- "What should a wife want?" / Janice S. Lieberman -- Opening space for women to dream and symbolize when facing misogyny : the need for an active bystander witness / Nancy R. Goodman -- What do women want? Let our voices be heard / Adriana Prengler -- The maternal-feminine : scenarios in transformation psychoanalysis and gender perspectives / Patricia Alkolombre -- Self-agency in the feminine : what females need today / Paula L. Ellman -- Concluding remarks: What do women what today? / Margarita Cereijido, Paula L. Ellman, and Nancy R. Goodman.

"In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize 'different' lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine. Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women's studies"-- Provided by publisher.