Nancy J Chodorow

Individualizing Gender and Sexuality

Theory and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

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 clinician's openness, curiosity, and theoretical pluralism. The book begins with reflections on Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, followed by considerations of Melanie Klein and Stephen Mitchell, as well as on her own work and on the postmodern turn in psychoanalytic gender theory. Subsequent chapters address contemporary clinical-cultural issues such as women and work, women and motherhood, and men and violence. Concluding chapters elaborate on the multiple ingredients and the personal affective, conflictual, and defensive constellations and processes that create sexuality and gender in each individual. Ending with a chapter on homosexualities as compromise formations, Chodorow deepens her account of clinical individuality and sex-gender transference-countertransference while bringing her readers back to Freud and to the many strands that followed, as she consolidates a consistent line of interest in sexuality and gender, theory and practice, sustained over a lifetime.

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Focusing on the uniqueness and complexity of each person's personal creation of gender and sexuality and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life, Nancy Chodorow brings her well-known theoretical agility and clinical experience to every chapter, advocating for the clinician's openness, curiosity, and theoretical pluralism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415893572
• ISBN-10: 0415893577
• Artikelnr.: 32728622

Autorenporträt

Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, a Lecturer on Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of four previous books and winner of numerous awards and fellowships. She is in private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Psychoanalysis and Women from Margin to Center: A Retrospect. Part I:
Theorists and Theory, 1905-2005. Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of
Sexuality: A Reading. From Subjectivity in General to Subjective Gender in
Particular: Rethinking Melanie Klein, "Mourning and its Relation to
Manic-Depressive States." The Reproduction of Mothering: Reconsiderations.
Prejudice Exposed: On Stephen Mitchell's Pioneering Investigations of the
Psychoanalytic Treatment and Mistreatment of Homosexuality. Gender on the
Modern/Postmodern and Classical/Relational Divide: Untangling History and
Epistemology. Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Consulting Room and Culture.
Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors, and Concrete Walls: Internal and External
Barriers to Women's Work and Achievement. "Too Late": The Reproduction and
Non-reproduction of Mothering. Hate, Humiliation, and Masculinity. Beyond
Sexual Difference: Same-sex/Cross-generation and Clinical Individuality in
the Creation of Feminine and Masculine. Homosexualities as Compromise
Formations.