The reproduction of mothering : psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender /
By: Chodorow, Nancy.
Publisher: Berkeley, Ca. : University of California Press, 1999Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xx, 263 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0520221559; 9780520221550:; 9780520221550.Subject(s): Mothers | Women -- Psychology | Mother and child | Mothers and daughters | Women and psychoanalysisDDC classification: 306.8743 CHOItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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First published in 1978.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
Introduction -- Why women mother -- Psychoanalysis and sociological inquiry -- Early psychological development -- The relation to the mother and the mothering relation -- Gender differences in the preoedipal period -- Object-relations and the female oedipal configuration -- Oedipal resolution and adolescent replay -- Freud: ideology and evidence -- Conclusions on post-oedipal gender personality -- The sexual sociology of adult life -- The psychodynamics of the family.
This text had a major impact on both feminists and psychoanalysts when it was first published, and it continues to shape the thinking of analysts and feminists today.