Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Chodorow | |
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| Born | Nancy Julia Chodorow January 20, 1944 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 14, 2025 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College London School of Economics and Political Science Harvard University Brandeis University |
| Known for | Psychoanalytical feminism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychoanalytic theory and clinical methods, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, psychoanalytic sociology and anthropology, feminist theory and methods |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley; Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School Wellesley College |
| Doctoral advisor | Egon Bittner |
| Other academic advisors | Philip Slater |
Nancy Julia Chodorow (January 20, 1944 – October 14, 2025) was an American sociologist and academic. She began teaching at Wellesley College in 1973, then moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught from 1974 until 1986. She was a Sociology and Clinical Psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, until 1986. Subsequently, she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.
Chodorow was the author of several works on feminist thought, 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).