Volume 38, Number 17 · October 24, 1991
The New Psychology of Women
By Phyllis Grosskurth
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
by Hannah S. Decker
Free Press, 299 pp., $22.95
Freud on Women: A Reader
edited by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Norton, 399 pp., $25.00
The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender
by Nancy Chodorow
University of California Press, 263 pp., $12.95 (paper)
In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
by Carol Gilligan
Harvard University Press, 184 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School
edited by Carol Gilligan, edited by Nona P. Lyons, edited by Trudy J. Hanmer
Harvard University Press, 334 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory
by Nancy J. Chodorow
Yale University Press, 286 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West
by Jane Flax
University of California Press, 277 pp., $13.95 (paper)
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
by Jessica Benjamin
Pantheon, 304 pp., $16.00 (paper)
The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
by Madelon Sprengnether
Cornell University Press, 264 pp., $24.95
What ever happened to little Jane? Thousands of American schoolchildren in the Fifties learned to read by following the activities of a prototypical WASP family—Father, Mother, Jane and her brother Dick, and their dog Spot ('See Spot run!'). They lived in a Norman Rockwell house with hollyhocks and a blue sky above. In the morning Father went off to The Office and Mother waved him a smiling good-bye. In the evening Father returned from The Office to cheerful Mother, who had been cooking a delicious meal for the family. We can assume that the house also contained a well-thumbed copy of Dr. Spock's reassuring guide to child-rearing. Everyone was going to live happily ever after.
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