Deconstructing the Feminine looks beyond impasses of binary thought and essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine from a contemporary perspective.

Leticia Glocer Fiorini is a full member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is also Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, former President of the APA and former Chair of the Publications Committee of the IPA and the APA.

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Abel Mario Fainstein

Prologue to the Second Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why the feminine?

Chapter 2 The feminine position: a heterogeneous construction

Chapter 3 The feminine, the pre-discourse and the symbolic

Chapter 4 At the limits of the feminine: the Other

Chapter 5 The feminine in the middle stages of life: the efficacy of an imaginary

Chapter 6 Love and power: the conditions of love in the Freudian discourse

Chapter 7 Itineraries of love life

Chapter 8 Maternity and female sexuality in light of new reproductive techniques

Chapter 9 Femininity and desire

Chapter 10 Towards a deconstruction of femininity as a universal category

Chapter 11 Between sex and gender: the paradigm of complexity

Chapter 12 Otherness, diversity, and sexual difference

Chapter 13 Difference(s): new constructions

Bibliography and references

Index