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.

• 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.

"This edited volume consists of fifteen original chapters, including a substantial introduction by editor and coauthor Petra Bueskens. The chapters are organized into three sections that respectively represent the three generations of scholars who have been influenced by Chodorow and her work, and by The Reproduction of Mothering in particular. ... This is Chodorow’s gift and, as this book reminds us, the gift of so many of her scholarly progeny." (Caroline Lundquist, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Vol. 34 (1), 2023)