Foreword -- A particular kind of anxiety in women--it's nothing at all, really . (and doubly so) -- The first lipstick: the fear of femininity in parents of adolescent girls -- "Too late": ambivalence about motherhood, choice, and time -- A "pause" for changing life: climacteric change and menopause -- Gender and affect -- The ambiguity of bisexuality in psychoanalysis -- The woman clinician in clinical work with infants and adults -- The "green continent": the constitution of femininity in a clinical case -- A clandestine identity: pathways of contemporary femininity 1.