Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond

by Nancy J. Chodorow

Book Overview

Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle male dominance from heterosexuality. Further, she demonstrates the paucity of psychoanalytics understanding of heterosexuality and the problematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108284
• ISBN13: 9780813108285
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher