Nancy Chodorow

Nancy Chodorow
Born
Nancy Julia Chodorow

(1944-01-20) January 20, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRadcliffe College
London School of Economics and Political Science
Harvard University
Brandeis University
Known forPsychoanalytical feminism
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoanalytic theory and clinical methods, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, psychoanalytic sociology and anthropology, feminist theory and methods
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley; Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Wellesley College
Doctoral advisorEgon Bittner[1]
Other academic advisorsPhilip Slater

Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor.[2] She began her career as a professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College in 1973, and from 1974 taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until 1986.[3] She then was a professor in the departments of Sociology and Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley until she resigned in 1986, after which she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.[4][5]

Chodorow has written a number of books in contemporary feminist writing,[6] including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978);[4][7][8] Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994); and The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999). In 1996, The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the top ten most influential books of the past 25 years.[4][8]

  1. ^ Chodorow, Nancy Julia (1975). Family Structure and Feminine Personality: The Reproduction of Mothering (PhD). Brandeis University. p. i. OCLC 217167326. ProQuest 302744378.
  2. ^ Chodorow, Nancy (1995). "Becoming a feminist foremother". In Phyllis Chesler; Esther D. Rothblum; Ellen Cole (eds.). Feminist foremothers in women's studies, psychology, and mental health. New York: Haworth Press. pp. 141–154. ISBN 9781560247678.
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  4. ^ a b c "Chodorow, Nancy (Julia) 1944-". Encyclopedia.com.
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  6. ^ Luttrell, Wendy (2005). "Chodorow, Nancy". Encyclopedia of Social Theory. doi:10.4135/9781412952552.n41. ISBN 9780761926115.
  7. ^ "CMPS Annual Conference (December 1, 2012)". Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, NY. Archived from the original on December 18, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Reproduction of Mothering" [publisher's description]. University of California Press. ucpress.edu.