with Ann Pellegrini and Tiffany Lethbo King

In much of psychoanalytic theory, the maternal is intimately tied up in, and is understood to be, the grounds of sexual difference, if not gender. But following from approaches in feminist, queer, trans, and Black Study, the maternal can be understood to have no gender. In this presentation, the panelists will address the notion of the maternal as ungendered, agendered, and multigendered.