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Gender in Transition

A New Frontier

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

    1. Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program for Study and Research in Psychology, New York, USA
      Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy, Brooklyn, USA
      National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, USA
      Yeshiva University, New York, USA

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Gender in Transition

    1. Gender in Transition

      • Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg
      Pages 1-6

  3. Gender in Transition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. That Old Black Magic of Femininity

      • Leanne Domash
      Pages 9-16

    3. From John Wayne to Tootsie

      • Richard M. Zuckerberg
      Pages 17-34

    4. Preparation for Fatherhood

      • Mary Beth M. Cresci
      Pages 35-46

    5. Gender Stereotypes

      • Gwendolyn L. Gerber
      Pages 47-66

    6. New Parents in a Changing World

      • Sophia Richman
      Pages 67-78

  4. New Reproductive Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. A Psychoanalytic Case Study

      • Harriette Kaley
      Pages 81-92

    3. Paternity by Proxy

      • Linda S. Fidell, Jaroslav Marik, Joan E. Donner, Chris Jenkins-Burk, Janie Koenigsberg, Kathy Magnussen et al.
      Pages 93-110

    4. Psychological Implications of the Anonymous Pregnancy

      • Aphrodite Clamar
      Pages 111-121

    5. Who Becomes a Surrogate

      • Joan Einwohner
      Pages 123-132

    6. Contemporary Adoption

      • Dorothea S. McArthur
      Pages 133-149

    7. Artificial Insemination by Donor

      • Bonnie R. Aronowitz, Joseph Feldschuh
      Pages 151-161

    8. Infertility and the New Reproductive Technologies

      • Randy Milden
      Pages 163-171

    9. Amniocentesis

      • Alice Eichholz
      Pages 173-178

    10. Gender Selection and Society

      • Jodie B. Ullman, Linda S. Fidell
      Pages 179-187

    11. Woman’s Shifting Sense of Self

      • Donna Bassin
      Pages 189-202

  5. The 21st Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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About this book

The wish for a child runs deep, as does the desire for parenthood. It is a wish that is essential to the continuance of the human species. It derives its motive power from many interrelated sources: psychobiological, sociological, historical. Yet it is a power that is changing hands. A short decade ago, Louise Brown was born. Prior to this event, human beings had begun biological life deep inside a female body. Louise Brown's birth signaled the beginning of a new era: The door to a new biotechnological world was opened, a world of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, embryo transplants, amniocentesis, gender preselection-procedures imagined but never before realized, leading perhaps to the injection of new genetic material into frozen embryos. Indeed, what had been, since Eve, an exclusively female power and prerogative has now been invaded by 20th-century biotechnology. The womb has been replaced, and sperm and egg can now be joined without love and romance. Change brings with it new questions: A complex inquiry has been generated by issues that are psychological, ethical, moral, biological, sociological, and legal. Simultaneously, and not incidentally or accidentally, gender psychology is in transi­ tion. As we enter an androgynous zone, cultural heroes shift, new couples emerge. Gender roles are redefined, and renegotiated, not without struggle and apprehen­ sion. We are approaching a new frontier-hopeful, self-conscious, and anxious. The possibilities are endless, as are the problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program for Study and Research in Psychology, New York, USA

    Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

  • Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy, Brooklyn, USA

    Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

  • National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, USA

    Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

  • Yeshiva University, New York, USA

    Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender in Transition

  • Book Subtitle: A New Frontier

  • Editors: Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5631-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Publishing Corporation 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5633-2Published: 22 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5631-8Published: 08 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 326

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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