Pregnancy Envy and the Politics of Compensatory Masculinities

Jacqueline Stevens

doi:10.1017/S1743923X05050087

Pregnancy Envy and the Politics of Compensatory Masculinities

Jacqueline Stevens

Political Science

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Abstract

Dominant psychoanalytic paradigms locate the breast or penis/phallus as the touchstone for gender/sex/sexual development. This essay offers a critique of these accounts and an alternative theory of sexed forms of being: pregnancy envy and the kinship rules that result from this. The essay also provides an intellectual history of how previous efforts to theorize pregnancy envy, especially work by Ida Macalpine, were suppressed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	265-296
Number of pages	32
Journal	Politics and Gender
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X05050087
State	Published - Jan 1 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Gender Studies
Sociology and Political Science

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