The Reproduction of Mothering

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

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

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

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