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Daphne de Maneffe  

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  • Daphne de Marneffe, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, feminist, and lecturer, theorizes a psychologically healthy and empowering-to-women form of maternal desire in her 2004 book, Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. In the book, de Marneffe explores mothers' relatedness to their children and defines maternal desire as a mother's desire to care for and relate to her children. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; de Marneffe, Daphne]

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