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Jan 21, 1944 New York City, New York, United States 80 years old
American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst
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About Nancy Chodorow
- Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) to Marvin Chodorow and Leah (Turitz) Chodorow in New York, New York.
- She is an American sociologist and professor.
- She describes herself as a humanistic psychoanalytic sociologist and psychoanalytic feminist.
- Throughout her career, she has been influenced by psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Karen Horney, as well as feminist theorists Beatrice Whiting and Phillip Slater.
- She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and often speaks at its congresses.
- She began as a professor at Wellesley College in 1973, a year later she began at the University of California, Santa Cruz until 1986.
- She then went on to spend many years as a professor in the departments of sociology and clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley until her retirement in 2005.
- Later, she began her career teaching psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.
- Chodorow is often described as a leader in feminist thought, especially in the realms of psychoanalysis and psychology.Chodorow has written a number of influential books in contemporary feminist writing, including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978); 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 1995, Chodorow was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences.
- In 1996, The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years.
