Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Why women mother -- Psychoanalysis and sociological inquiry -- Early psychological development -- The relation to the mother and the mothering relation -- Gender differences in the preoedipal period -- Object-relations and the female oedipal configuration -- Oedipal resolution and adolescent replay -- Freud: ideology and evidence -- Conclusions on post-oedipal gender personality -- The sexual sociology of adult life -- The psychodynamics of the family.
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