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Critically evaluate Nancy Chodorow's theory of the origins of gender identity in childhood. In what ways does the theory adapt the classical Freudian ideas of the importance of fathers in the 'Oedipal Stage' in a child's development?
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Critically evaluate Nancy Chodorow's theory of the origins of gender identity in childhood. In what ways does the theory adapt the classical Freudian ideas of the importance of fathers in the 'Oedipal Stage' in a child's development? In this essay I shall attempt to show the ways in which psychoanalytic feminist, Nancy Chodorow views the origins of gender identity in childhood and the ways in which she adapts the classical Freudian concept of the 'Oedipal' stage in the development of children. To do this I will first give a brief overview of Freud's original beliefs of the development of identity. I will then look at Chodorow's account of the formation of personality and gender in children in an endeavour to find in what ways Freud's early psychoanalytic works have been adapted in recent years. Freud's theory of gender development asserts that a child's awareness of the differences in boys and girls' genitals...
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