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The Reproduction of Mothering

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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 m...
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  • 28 April 2023
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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.


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-fiv
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Price: $30.95
Pages: 283
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 28 April 2023
ISBN: 9780520924086
Format: eBook
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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