“Dying for a Baby” and Other “Confusions of Tongues”: A Discussion of “Childless”

Katie Gentile, Ph.D., is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival and the 2017 Gradiva Award winning The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies, in Psychoanalysis and Cultures, both from Routledge. She is the editor of the Routledge book series Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Culture and a co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Critical Social Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is in private practice in New York City.
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