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The reproduction of mothering : psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender /

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Women mother. In our society, as in most societies, women not only bear children. They also take primary responsibility for infant care, spend more time with infants and children than do men, and sustain primary emotional ties with infants. When biological mothers do not parent, other women, rather...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chodorow, Nancy, 1944-
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1978.
Series:Social theory.
Subjects:
Mothers.
Women > Psychology.
Mother and child.
Women and psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Mothers
Mother-Child Relations
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Theory
Mères.
Femmes > Psychologie.
Mère et enfant.
Psychanalyse.
Femmes et psychanalyse.
mothers.
psychoanalysis.
Mother and child
Women and psychoanalysis
Women > Psychology
Geschlechterrolle
Psychoanalyse
Mutter
Kind
Geschlechtsunterschied
Mutterschaft
Soziologie
Moederschap.
Psychoanalyse.
Sociale aspecten.
Sekserol.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: setting the problem: mothering and the social organization of gender.
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Why women mother. the argument from nature; the role-training argument.
  • 3. Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry. considerations on "evidence".
  • Part two: the psychoanalytic story.
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. The relation to the mother and the mothering relation. the effects of early mothering; the maternal role; conclusions.
  • 6. Gender differences in the preoedipal period. early psychoanalytic formations; the discovery of the preoedipal mother-daughter relationship; preoedipal mother-daughter relationships: the clinical picture; preoedipal mother-son relationships: the clinical picture; conclusions.
  • 7. Object-relations and the female oedipal configutation. femininity: women's oedipal goal; the relation to the mother and the feminine "change of object"; relational complexities in the female Oedipus situation.
  • 8. Oedipal resolution and adolescent replay. the ongoingness of the female Oedipus situation; mothers, daughters, and adolescence.
  • 9. Freud: ideology and evidence. bias in the Freudian account; psychoanalytic critiques of Freud; biological determinism.
  • 10. Conclusions on post-oedipal gender personality. family relations and oedipal experience; post-oedipal gender personality: a recapitulation.
  • Part three: gender personality and the reproduction of mothering.
  • 11. The sexual society of adult life. gender identification and gender role learning; family and economy; mothering, masculinity, and capitalism.
  • 12. The psychodynamics of the family. oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots; the cycle completed mothers and children; gender personality and the reproduction of mothering.
  • Afterward: women's mothering and women's liberation.