Vacant wombs: Feminist challenges to psychoanalytic theories of childless women

Feminist Review

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-19

  Hird, Myra J ^a  

^a Queen s University   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childless; Feminist theory; Gender; Identification; Psychoanalytic theory; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348158424     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400115     Document Type: Article

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