Reproduction of Mothering

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).

• 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