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This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow’s canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens—in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship. In the 40 years since its publication, The Reproduction of Mothering has had a profound impact on scholarship across many disciplines including sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, ethics, literary criticism and women’s and gender studies.  Organized as a “reproduction of mothering scholarship”, this volume adopts a generationally differentiated structure weaving personal, political and scholarly essays.  This book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities. It willbring Nancy Chodorow and her canonical work to a new generation showcasing classic and contemporary Chodorowian scholarship.

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Author:   Petra Bueskens
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9783030555924

ISBN 10:   3030555925
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.     Introduction: The Reproduction of Mothering Turns Forty Petra Bueskens   PART I                        Mothers   2.     Women Mother Daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering after Forty Years   Nancy J Chodorow                                                                                                                                                  3.     The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On Adrienne E Harris   4.     Reminiscing and Reflecting on Nancy Chodorow’s The Reproduction of Mothering Rosemary H. Balsam                                                                                                                                                     5.     Thinking Back through our Mothers: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Chodorow, and Me Elizabeth Abel   6.     The Impact of Nancy Chodorow’s The Reproduction of Mothering and its Implications for the Future Madelon Sprengnether                                                                                                                                                                                                                               PART II                      Daughters 7.     The Reproduction of Mothering:  A Love Story  Ilene Philipson                                                                   8.     Mothering in Life and Therapy: An Appreciation of Chodorow’s Lifelong Contribution Daphne de Marneffe                                                                                                                                   9.     Mother Figures: On Becoming the Mother One Wishes One Had Meg Jay                                               10. The Production of Male Mothering Leslie C. Bell                                                                                         11.  Lesbian Desire and the Female Subject: Full Circle with Chodorow Jade McGleughlin                                     PART III                     Granddaughters 12.  Mother-Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and Chodorow Alison Stone         13.  Mothers Reproducing the Social: Chodorow and Beyond Petra Bueskens                                           14.  Mirroring a Mother’s Love: A Chodorowian Analysis of the Complicated Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies Katie B. Garner                                                                                                         15.  The Reproduction of Mothering: Unlocking Italian Women’s Fiction from the Fin-de-Siècle Onwards Ursula Fanning

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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. 

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