Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.

'I particularly welcome this series because it will stimulate us to go on thinking about feminine issues, and its international dimension will allow us to share thoughts with authors from all over the world. [It] will become a source of inspiration to many generations of colleagues and it deserves to be a success. I highly commend this book.' - Joyce McDougall.

• Foreword -- Psychoanalysis of a female homosexual -- The everlasting orgasm -- The fluidity of the female universe and its psychic consequences -- Negotiating the antagonism between feminine and maternal spheres -- Eggs between women—emotional aspects of gamete donation in reproductive technology -- Strangebody -- The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with body narcissism -- The female body has its reasons—but its reasons have a female body -- The challenges and options of menopause -- Baubo: rediscovering woman’s pleasures -- The hidden chamber—a case of fused minor labia

Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.

'I particularly welcome this series because it will stimulate us to go on thinking about feminine issues, and its international dimension will allow us to share thoughts with authors from all over the world. [It] will become a source of inspiration to many generations of colleagues and it deserves to be a success. I highly commend this book.' - Joyce McDougall.

• Foreword -- Psychoanalysis of a female homosexual -- The everlasting orgasm -- The fluidity of the female universe and its psychic consequences -- Negotiating the antagonism between feminine and maternal spheres -- Eggs between women—emotional aspects of gamete donation in reproductive technology -- Strangebody -- The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with body narcissism -- The female body has its reasons—but its reasons have a female body -- The challenges and options of menopause -- Baubo: rediscovering woman’s pleasures -- The hidden chamber—a case of fused minor labia

Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.

'I particularly welcome this series because it will stimulate us to go on thinking about feminine issues, and its international dimension will allow us to share thoughts with authors from all over the world. [It] will become a source of inspiration to many generations of colleagues and it deserves to be a success. I highly commend this book.' - Joyce McDougall.

• Foreword -- Psychoanalysis of a female homosexual -- The everlasting orgasm -- The fluidity of the female universe and its psychic consequences -- Negotiating the antagonism between feminine and maternal spheres -- Eggs between women—emotional aspects of gamete donation in reproductive technology -- Strangebody -- The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with body narcissism -- The female body has its reasons—but its reasons have a female body -- The challenges and options of menopause -- Baubo: rediscovering woman’s pleasures -- The hidden chamber—a case of fused minor labia