Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering

Petra Bueskens is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a psychotherapist in private practice. Her books include Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract and the edited volumes Motherhood and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives , and Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives .

1.Introduction: The Reproduction of Mothering Turns Forty.- 2. Women Mother Daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering after Forty Years.- 3. The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On.- 4. Reminiscing and Reflecting on Nancy Chodorow's The Reproduction of Mothering.-5. Thinking Back through our Mothers: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Chodorow, and Me.- 6. The Impact of Nancy Chodorow's The Reproduction of Mothering and its Implications for the Future.- 7. The Reproduction of Mothering: A Love Story.- 8. Mothering in Life and Therapy: An Appreciation of Chodorow's Lifelong Contribution. - 9.Mother Figures: On Becoming the Mother One Wishes One Had.- 10. The Production of Male Mothering. -11. Lesbian Desire and the Female Subject: Full Circle with Chodorow.- 12. Mother-Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and Chodorow.- 13. Mothers Reproducing the Social: Chodorow and Beyond.- 14. Mirroring a Mother's Love: A Chodorowian Analysis of the Complicated Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies.- 15. The Reproduction of Mothering: Unlocking Italian Women's Fiction from the Fin-de-Siècle Onwards.