Table of contents : Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Reproduction of Mothering Turns Forty The Reproduction of Mothering Revisited The Reproduction of Mothering Contextualised Second-Wave Feminism and Motherhood The Maternal Feminist Critique of The Reproduction of Mothering The Postmodern Critique of The Reproduction of Mothering Overview of the Chapters Bibliography Part I Mothers 2 Women Mother Daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering After Forty Years References 3 The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years on 4 Reminiscing and Reflecting on Nancy Chodorow’s The Reproduction of Mothering Nancy Chodorow’s Creative Thinking The Reproduction of Mothering Chodorow’s Theory Chodorow’s Self-Reflection Contemporary Clinical Application Coda Bibliography 5 Thinking Back Through Our Mothers: The Legacies of Nancy Chodorow Maternal Subjects Orphaned Objects Works Cited 6 The Impact of Nancy Chodorow’s The Reproduction of Mothering and Its Implications for the Future References Part II Daughters 7 The Reproduction of Mothering: A Love Story The Context The Reproduction of Mothering Bibliography 8 Mothering in Life and Therapy: An Appreciation of Chodorow’s Lifelong Contribution Bibliography 9 Mother Figures: On Becoming the Mother One Wishes One Had Bibliography 10 The Production of Male Mothering Reproduction of Mothering The Production of Men Who Mother Chodorow’s Enduring Contributions Bibliography 11 Full Circle with Chodorow: Reflections on Women’s Desire and Lesbian Sexuality Part One: Early Engagement with Chodorow Part Two: The Power of a Movement to Transform Sexuality Part Three: The Broken Link of Unbeing A Story Bibliography Part III Grand Daughters 12 Mother–Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and Chodorow Bibliography 13 Mothers Reproducing the Social: Chodorow and Beyond Chodorow’s Feminist Object Relations Reproducing the Social: Intersections Between Psyche and Society Maternal Subjectivity in Late Modernity Autonomous Mothers Reproducing the Social The Transformation of Work Culture Reproducing Mothers Reproducing the Social Bibliography 14 Mirroring a Mother’s Love: A Chodorowian Analysis of the Complicated Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home—Megan K. Stack My Hollywood—Mona Simpson The Perfect Nanny—Leila Slimani Conclusion Bibliography 15 The Reproduction of Mothering: Unlocking Italian Women’s Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle Onwards The Mother-Daughter Bond in the Work of Matilde Serao Sibilla Aleramo: Reworking the Maternal Story and the Maternal Imaginary Late Twentieth-Century Takes on the Maternal Works Cited Index