ABSTRACT

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? is a major contribution to the postmodern understanding of gender issues.

This new edition, under the aegis of the Bending Psychoanalysis Book Series, includes a Foreword by Series Editor Jack Drescher and an Afterword in which Lynne Layton addresses the evolution of her thinking since the book's publication in 1998.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

chapter |34 pages

Beyond Narcissism

Toward a Negotiation Model of Gender Identity

chapter |29 pages

Gender Benders/Gender Binders

A Psychoanalytic Look at Contemporary Popular Culture

chapter |23 pages

Who's That Girl?

Madonna *

chapter |22 pages

Trauma, Gender Identity, and Sexuality

Discourses of Fragmentation *

chapter |27 pages

Blue Velvet

A Parable of Male Development *

chapter |33 pages

Performance Theory, Act 3

The Doer Behind the Deed Gets Depressed *