Individualizing gender and sexuality : theory and practice / Nancy J. Chodorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chodorow, Nancy, 1944-

Series:

Relational perspectives book series ; v. 53.

Relational perspectives book series ; v. 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Sex.

Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nancy Chodorow, in her groundbreaking book The Reproduction of Mothering, quite simply changed the conversation in at least three areas of study: psychoanalysis, women's studies, and sociology. In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, she examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person's personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life. She brings her well-known theoretical agility, wide-ranging interdisciplinarity, and clinical experience to every chapter, advocating for the c

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Psychoanalysis and women from margin to center: A retrospect; Part I Theorists and theory, 1905-2005; Chapter 2 Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: A reading; Chapter 3 From subjectivity in general to subjective gender in particular: Rethinking Melanie Klein, "Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states"; Chapter 4 The Reproduction of Mothering: Reconsiderations

Chapter 5 Prejudice exposed: On Stephen Mitchell's pioneering investigations of the psychoanalytic treatment and mistreatment of homosexualityChapter 6 Gender on the modern/postmodern and classical/relational divide: Untangling history and epistemology; Part II Gender and sexuality in consulting room and culture; Chapter 7 Glass ceilings, sticky floors, and concrete walls: Internal and external barriers to women's work and achievement; Chapter 8 Too late: The reproduction and non-reproduction of mothering; Chapter 9 Hate, humiliation, and masculinity

Chapter 10 Beyond sexual difference: Same-sex/cross-generation and clinical individuality in the creation of feminine and masculineChapter 11 Homosexualities as compromise formations; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-71946-6

1-280-66270-0

9786613639639

1-136-71947-4

0-203-81606-4

9780203816066

OCLC:

818933741