Table of Contents
Introduction Ellen L. K. Toronto
Section One: A Culture of Oppression
Commentary on Section One Maurine Kelly
Chapter One: Gender Inequality in a (Still) Binary World Ellen L. K. Toronto
Chapter Two: Feminism: A Revolutionary Call about Female Sexuality Doris Silverman
Chapter Three: "We’re (Not) Pregnant": Gay Men and Women’s Reproductive Rights Richard Ruth
Response to Section One Marilyn Metzl
Section Two: Women and Sexual Trauma
Commentary on Section Two Kristin Davisson
Chapter Four: Date Rape and the Demon-Lover Complex: The Devine, The Deviant, and the Diabolical in Male/Female Politics Susan Kavaler-Adler
Chapter Five: Secondary Sexual Trauma of Women: Female Witnesses Kristin Davisson
Chapter Six: Chasing Justice: By Stander Intervention and Restorative Justice in the Contexts of College Campuses and Psychoanalytic Institutes Katie Gentile
Section Three: Women Defining Motherhood
Commentary on Section Three JoAnn Ponder
Chapter Seven: Childfree Women: Surviving the Pushback and Forming an Identity in the Internet Era Adi Avivi
Chapter Eight: A Perfect Birth: The Birth Rights Movement and the Idealization of Birth Helena Vissing
Chapter Nine: From Infertility and Empty Womb to Maternal Fulfillment: The Psychological Birth of the Adoptive Mother JoAnn Ponder
Section Four: Mother as Therapist / Therapist as Mother
Commentary on Section Four Ellen L. K. Toronto
Chapter Ten: Too Soft, Too Warm, Too Maternal: What is Good Enough? Meredith Darcy
Chapter Eleven: Get a Grip: How a Psychotherapist’s Postpartum Depression Disrupted the Illusion of the Idealized Mother and Changed Forever What It Means to "Hold" Kristin Reale