Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. PART I: Setting the Problem: Mothering and the Social Organization of Gender
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. Why Women Mother 11
7. 3. Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry 40
8. PART II: The Psychoanalytic Story
9. 4. Early Psychological Development 57
10. 5. The Relation to the Mother and the Mothering Relation 77
11. 6. Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period 92
12. 7. Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration 111
13. 8. Oedipal Resolution and Adolescent Replay 130
14. 9. Freud: Ideology and Evidence 141
15. 10. Conclusions on Post-Oedipal Gender Personality 159
16. PART III: Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering
17. 11. The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life 173
18. 12. The Psychodynamics of the Family 191
19. Afterword: Women's Mothering and Women's Liberation 211
20. Notes 221
21. Bibliography 241
22. Index 257