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This essay situates Chodorow’s groundbreaking book in two traditions: 70s second-wave feminism and in the transformations in psychoanalysis in which attachment, early object relations and intergenerational transmission are prominent areas of interest. This book is a stellar example of interdisciplinary thinking, bridging sociology, feminism, and psychoanalysis in a unique mixture that was transformative for the each of these areas.
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Weatherman was an underground militant radical left student organisation founded at the University of Michigan in the late 1960s.
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In addition to Nancy Chodorow’s seminal work in The Reproduction of Mothering there was also Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (New York: Pantheon, 1988); Jessica Benjamin, Beyond Doer and Done to: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness (London and New York: Routledge, 2004); Muriel Dimen (2003), Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2003); Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly (NY: The Analytic Press, 2005); Ken Corbett, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
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Haydée Faimberg, The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Generations (London and New York: Routledge, 2005); Maurice Apprey, “The Pluperfect Errand: A Turbulent Return to Beginnings in the Transgenerational Transmission of Destructive Aggression,” Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics 77 (2015): 15–28; Madeleine Baranger and Willy Baranger, “The Analytic Situation as a Dynamic Field,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 89 (2008): 795–826; Madeleine Baranger and Willy Baranger, “Spiral Process and the Dynamic Field,” in The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field (London: Routledge, 2009), 45–62; Jill Salberg and Sue Grand, eds., Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma (London: Routledge, 2017).
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Harris, A.E. (2021). The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years on. In: Bueskens, P. (eds) Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55590-0_3
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