| Description |
263pages |
| Contents |
Pt. I. 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" -- Pt. II. 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. 6. Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period. Early Psychoanalytic Formulations. The Discovery of the Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationship. Preoedipal Mother-Daughter Relationships: The Clinical Picture. Preoedipal Mother-Son Relationships: The Clinical Picture. 7. Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration. 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 -- Pt. III. Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering. 11. The Sexual Sociology 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. Afterword: Women's Mothering and Women's Liberation |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1978 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Mother and child.
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Mothers.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Women and psychoanalysis.
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Women -- Psychology.
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| LC no. |
75027922 |
| ISBN |
0520031334 |
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