Book, Genre (Teperman)[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. If for a long time a certain normative fixity between sex, gender and parenting remained unquestioned, after reading this book, the power of a plural, intersectional and implicated analysis on the topic gains new momentum. Supported both by a rigorous reading of the subversion that marks psychoanalysis and by the challenges imposed by the tension between structure, history and power, the texts that make up this volume have the merit of finding their unity in the theoretical, clinical and ethical production of their differences. The authors remind us that — suspicious of the naturalness with which femininity and masculinity, motherhood and fatherhood are treated both in culture and by the subject himself — psychoanalysis and critical reflections from history, sociology and gender studies converge in a method that reads in the unspoken the truth that the dominant order tries to silence. Depathologizations, new parenting, racial and gender criticism of hegemonic paternities, historical roots of maternity, structural dimensions of parental functions, among other reflections set the tone for a work that is already emerging as unavoidable for those who study the topic. Pedro Ambra