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

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ISBN-10: 0520221559

ISBN-13: 9780520221550

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Nancy J. Chodorow

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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 Motheringwas chosen byContemporary Sociologyas 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.
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 283
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Setting the Problem: Mothering and the Social Organization of Gender
Introduction
Why Women Mother
The Argument from Nature
The Role-Training Argument
Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry
Considerations on "Evidence"
The Psychoanalytic Story
Early Psychological Development
Total Dependence and the Narcissistic Relation to Reality
Primary Love
The Beginnings of Self and the Growth of Object Love
A Note on Exclusive Mothering
The Relation to the Mother and the Mothering Relation
The Effects of Early Mothering
The Maternal Role
Conclusions
Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period
Early Psychoanalytic Formulations
The Discovery of the Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationship
Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationships: The Clinical Picture
Preoedipal Mother-Son Relationships: The Clinical Picture
Conclusions
Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration
Femininity: Women's Oedipal Goal
The Relation to the Mother and the Feminine "Change of Object"
Relational Complexities in the Female Oedipus Situation
Oedipal Resolution and Adolescent Replay
The Ongoingness of the Female Oedipus Situation
Mothers, Daughters, and Adolescence
Freud: Ideology and Evidence
Bias in the Freudian Account
Psychoanalytic Critiques of Freud
Biological Determinism
Conclusions on Post-Oedipal Gender Personality
Family Relations and Oedipal Experience
Post-Oedipal Gender Personality: A Recapitulation
Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering
The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life
Gender Identification and Gender Role Learning
Family and Economy
Mothering, Masculinity, and Capitalism
The Psychodynamics of the Family
Oedipal Asymmetries and Heterosexual Knots
The Cycle Completed: Mothers and Children
Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering
Afterword: Women's Mothering and Women's Liberation
Notes
Bibliography
Index