Mothering and Ambivalence
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Abstract
Contents: Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Crisis in the Western Family. The Production and Purposes of Maternal Ambivalence. Father's Ambivalence (too). The Maternal Bed. Mothers and Daughters Within a Changing World. Mothers, Parenting, Gender Development and Therapy. The Heaven and Hell of Mothering: Mothering and Ambivalence in the Mass Media. In the Company of Women: Experiences of Working with the Lost Mother. Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: the Romantic Tragedy of a Mother Child Relationship. Group Analytic Psychotherapy: a Site for Reworking the Relationship Between Mothers and Daughters. 'I Wouldn't do Your Job!': Women, Social Work and Child Abuse.