The reproduction of mothering

Subtitle:
Psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender

Author:
Chodorow, Nancy 1944-

Place of Publication:
Berkeley

Publisher:
University of California Press

Publication Date:
1979

ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0520031334

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

LoC Call Number:
HQ 759 .C56 1979

Accession Number:
001133

Keyword Subject Headings:
Women--Psychology
Mother and child
Women and psychoanalysis
Mothers

User Notes:
viii + 263pp. including index and bibliography. Contents: 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