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Nancy Chodorow | |
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Born | Nancy Julia Chodorow January 20, 1944 New York City, New York, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Radcliffe College London School of Economics and Political Science Harvard University Brandeis University |
Known for | Psychoanalytical feminism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychoanalytic theory and clinical methods, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, psychoanalytic sociology and anthropology, feminist theory and methods |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley; Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Wellesley College |
Doctoral advisor | Egon Bittner[1] |
Other academic advisors | Philip Slater |
Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor.[2] She began teaching at Wellesley College in 1973 and at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1974 until 1986.[3] She was a Sociology and Clinical Psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley until 1986.[4][5] Subsequently, she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.
Chodorow has written several books on contemporary feminist thought,[6] including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978);[4][7][8] Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994); and The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999). In 1996, Contemporary Sociology named The Reproduction of Mothering one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years.[4][8]
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