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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811892303321

Autore

Chodorow Nancy <1944-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-71946-6

1-280-66270-0

9786613639639

1-136-71947-4

0-203-81606-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 53

Disciplina

155.3

Soggetti

Gender identity

Sex

Psychoanalysis and homosexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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