Nancy Chodorow's The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978) is one of the seminal works of contemporary feminist theory. In it, she explores with extraordinary depth and acuity the consequences of the fact that women mother both male and female children. In this current volume, Chodorow's sociological background is informed by her recent training as a psychoanalyst. The result, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, is a remarkable collection of essays, each yielding riches one expects to find in an entire book. Written in the 1970s and 1980s, these essays are strikingly fresh, suggesting how little, and how slowly, psychoanalytic theory has been able to absorb serious feminist thought. Additionally,