The Reproduction of Mothering

by Chodorow, Nancy J.

• ISBN13: 9780520221550
• ISBN10: 0520221559
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-02
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Nancy Chodorow's classic work on the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology.

Author Biography

Nancy J. Chodorow is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vii	(12)
Preface to the Original Edition	xix
PART I: Setting the Problem: Mothering and the Social Organization of Gender	3	(54)
1. Introduction	3	(8)
2. Why Women Mother	11	(29)
The Argument from Nature	13	(17)
The Role-Training Argument	30	(10)
3. Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry	40	(17)
Considerations on "Evidence"	52	(5)
PART II: The Psychoanalytic Story	57	(116)
4. Early Psychological Development	57	(20)
Total Dependence and the Narcissistic Relation to Reality	58	(4)
Primary Love	62	(5)
The Beginnings of Self and the Growth of Object Love	67	(6)
A Note on Exclusive Mothering	73	(4)
5. The Relation to the Mother and the Mothering Relation	77	(15)
The Effects of Early Mothering	77	(6)
The Maternal Role	83	(7)
Conclusions	90	(2)
6. Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period	92	(19)
Early Psychoanalytic Formulations	93	(2)
The Discovery of the Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationship	95	(4)
Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationships: The Clinical Picture	99	(5)
Preoedipal Mother-Son Relationships: The Clinical Picture	104	(4)
Conclusions.	108	(3)
7. Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration	111	(19)
Femininity: Women's Oedipal Goal	111	(3)
The Relation to the Mother and the Feminine "Change of Object"	114	(11)
Relational Complexities in the Female Oedipus Situation	125	(5)
8. Oedipal Resolution and Adolescent Replay	130	(11)
The Ongoingness of the Female Oedipus Situation	131	(2)
Mothers, Daughters, and Adolescence	133	(8)
9. Freud: Ideology and Evidence	141	(18)
Bias in the Freudian Account	141	(7)
Psychoanalytic Critiques of Freud	148	(6)
Biological Determinism	154	(5)
10. Conclusions on Post-Oedipal Gender Personality	159	(14)
Family Relations and Oedipal Experience	160	(4)
Post-Oedipal Gender Personality: A Recapitulation	164	(9)
PART III: Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering	173	(38)
11. The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life	173	(18)
Gender Identification and Gender Role Learning	173	(5)
Family and Economy	178	(2)
Mothering, Masculinity, and Capitalism	180	(11)
12. The Psychodynamics of the Family	191	(20)
Oedipal Asymmetries and Heterosexual Knots	191	(8)
The Cycle Completed: Mothers and Children	199	(6)
Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering	205	(6)
Afterword: Women's Mothering and Women's Liberation	211	(10)
Notes	221	(20)
Bibliography	241	(16)
Index	257