Theoretical Explanations of Nancy Chodorow on Maternity Role
Abstract
This study, combining sociology with psychoanalysis, is
devoted to analyze predominantly theoretical explanations of
Nancy Chodorow on maternity role, an object relations
theoretician who re-approaches S. Freud’s arguments on
sexual development with a feminist point of view.
Scrutinizing in her theory the question why the woman
wants to be a mother, for Chodorow, the reason of the
reproduction of maternity is their constant need for individual
relation and not getting the response of this need from other
individuals, especially from males whose prime status is
identified in public domain.
In Chodorow’s thought – assigns the main reason of the
asymmetric structure of the social sex organization and also
sex-based division of labour to the asymmetrically organized
parental system – beside biologic maternity, structuring of
socio-cultural maternity as “the role of woman” is the major
source of the asymmetric role organization and social
inequality.
Although Chodorow’s theoretical approach, which
regards heterosexuality as a norm and accepts it as the
result of the feminine socialization, contains criticism against
Freud, at this point shows parallelisms with him. Having a
short scope and being inadequate against the explanations
on differentiation of homosexuality and sex identities,
Chodorow’s feminist-psychoanalyst approach at the same
time depends on biologic duality. According to her,
heterosexual marriage and maternity have central and
descriptive characteristics in the social organization of sex.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
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Yazarlar
Dr. Türkan Erdoğan
Bu kişi benim
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Eylül 2008
Gönderilme Tarihi
24 Mart 2015
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 14 Sayı: 14