When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. <i>The Reproduction of Mothering</i> was chosen by <i>Contemporary Sociology</i> as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that Nancy Chodorow's work continues to exert on psychoanalysis, social science, and the humanities.