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Nancy J. Chodorow
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American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst
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Nancy J. Chodorow, born Nancy Julia Chodorow on 20 January 1944 in New York City, was an American psychologist, writer, sociologist and university teacher. She was educated at Radcliffe College, Harvard University and Brandeis University, and was employed at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her fields of work included feminism, gender studies, sociology and psychology. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote five works, including Feminism and psychoanalytic theory and Individualizing gender and sexuality. Chodorow died on 14 October 2025.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Individualizing gender and sexuality
- El Poder de Los Sentimientos / Argentinean History. Volume VII
- Feminism and psychoanalytic theory
- El Ejercicio de La Maternidad
- Femininities, masculinities, sexualities
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Key facts
- Born
- Nancy Julia Chodorow , ( 1944-01-20 ) January 20, 1944, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) (aged 81)
- Alma mater
- Radcliffe College , London School of Economics and Political Science , Harvard University , Brandeis University
- Known for
- Psychoanalytical feminism
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nancy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Brandeis University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- psychoanalysis
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- date of birth
- 1944-01-20
- name in native language
- Nancy Chodorow
- date of death
- 2025-10-14
- birth name
- Nancy Julia Chodorow
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
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