Bøker av Nancy J. Chodorow

A series of essays that aim to elucidate how the unconscious awareness of self and gender we develop from earliest infancy continues to shape both our experiences as men and women and the patterns of inequality and difference that permeate our society and culture.

The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.

When this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The text was recently chosen by "Contemporary Sociology" as one of the ten most influential books of the 25 years between 1974 and 1999.