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) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 265-296 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Politics and Gender |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Sociology and Political Science