Dr Lisa Baraitser is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She is Programme Director of the new MA Psychosocial Studies. Her research interests are in gender and sexuality, motherhood, feminist epistemologies, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and philosophies of ethics, affect and event.Her recent work has centred on the fraught relations, as well as creative tensions, between motherhood, female subjectivity and ethics. It spans an inter-disciplinary arena that takes in contemporary debates in relational, post-Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminism, the ethics of care, philosophies of otherness and event, phenomenology, and the use of autobiographical writing as a feminist research strategy. She is co-founder of the international research network MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)

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