The last 20 years have seen an upsurge of analytic interest in theories of female development and femininity. Spurred by the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s, analysts and academic feminist theorists alike have proposed various revisions of Freud's theories of female psychology, a source of dissatisfaction to both. Of the academic feminists interested in psychoanalysis, perhaps no one is better known that Nancy Chodorow, whose 1978 book, The Reproduction of Mothering, seized the imagination of feminists and was widely accepted by them as the definitive account of