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Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal SpacesA Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine\nAuthor(s): Bethany Morris\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367173340, 978-0367173340\nSynopsis\nThis book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around \""monstrous\"" women throughout history and how they may challenge these characterizations. \n\nThe author expands on Barbara Creeds notion of the monstrous-feminine to give a specifically Lacanian analysis of different types of feminine monsters, such as Mary Toft, Andrea Yates, Lillith, and Medusa. Drawing on Lacans theory of \""sexuation,\"" the book interrogates characterizations of pregnant women during the Enlightenment, women who commit filicide, mothers in the psychoanalytic clinic, a.