The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Updated Edition

by Nancy J. Chodorow

Overview

When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that Nancy Chodorow's work continues to exert on psychoanalysis, social science, and the humanities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520924086
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	283
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Nancy J. Chodorow is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999), Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994), and Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
PART I: SETTING THE PROBLEM: MOTHERING AND THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER
1. Introduction
2. Why Women Mother
3. Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry
PART II: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STORY
4. Early Psychological Development
5. The Relation to the Mother and the Mothering Relation
6. Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period
7. Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration
8. Oedipal Resolution and Adolescent Replay
9. Freud: Ideology and Evidence
10. Conclusions on Post-Oedipal Gender Personality
PART III: GENDER PERSONALITY AND THE REPRODUCTION OF MOTHERING
11. The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life
12. The Psychodynamics of the Family
AFTERWORD: WOMEN'S MOTHERING AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX