Focusing on the uniqueness and complexity of each person's personal creation of gender and sexuality and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life, Nancy Chodorow brings her well-known theoretical agility and clinical experience to every chapter, advocating for the clinician's openness, curiosity, and theoretical pluralism.

Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, a Lecturer on Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of four previous books and winner of numerous awards and fellowships. She is in private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Psychoanalysis and Women from Margin to Center: A Retrospect. Part I: Theorists and Theory, 1905-2005. Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: A Reading. From Subjectivity in General to Subjective Gender in Particular: Rethinking Melanie Klein, "Mourning and its Relation to Manic-Depressive States." The Reproduction of Mothering: Reconsiderations. Prejudice Exposed: On Stephen Mitchell's Pioneering Investigations of the Psychoanalytic Treatment and Mistreatment of Homosexuality. Gender on the Modern/Postmodern and Classical/Relational Divide: Untangling History and Epistemology. Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Consulting Room and Culture. Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors, and Concrete Walls: Internal and External Barriers to Women's Work and Achievement. "Too Late": The Reproduction and Non-reproduction of Mothering. Hate, Humiliation, and Masculinity. Beyond Sexual Difference: Same-sex/Cross-generation and Clinical Individuality in the Creation of Feminine and Masculine. Homosexualities as Compromise Formations.