Chodorow, Nancy,  1944- <br/><br/>
The reproduction of mothering :  psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender / 
Nancy J. Chodorow. 
 - Berkeley ;  London :  University of California Press,  1999. 
 - xx, 263 p. ;  23 cm. +  pbk. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: (pages 241-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Setting the problem: mothering and the social organization of gender -- Introduction -- Why women mother -- Psychoanalysis and sociological inquiry -- Part II: The psychoanalytic story -- 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 -- Part III: Gender personality and the reproduction of mothering -- The sexual sociology of adult life -- The psychodynamics of the family --  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520221559 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mothers.<br/>Women--Psychology<br/>Mother and child.<br/>Women and psychoanalysis.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.8743