Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Chodorow

Nancy Julia Chodorow is an American sociologist and professor. She can be categorized as a Humanistic psychoanalytic sociologist and Psychoanalytic feminist. Throughout her career, she has been influenced by psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Karen Horney, as well as feminist theorists Beatrice Whiting and Phillip Slater. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and is a frequent speaker at their congress meetings. She began her career as a professor of Women's studies at Wellesley College in 1973. In 1974, she moved California where she taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz until 1986. She then went on to spend many years as a professor in the departments of sociology and clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley until she resigned in 1986. Later, she began her career teaching psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance. Chodorow is often described as a leader in feminist thought, especially in the realms of psychoanalysis and psychology.