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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

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A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

Nancy Chodorow

Nancy Chodorow

Nancy Chodorow

Born: January 20, 1944

Died: October 14, 2025 (aged 81)

Bio: Nancy Julia Chodorow was a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst.

Known for:

Feminism and psychoanalytic theory (1989)
The Power of Feelings (1999)
Feminities, Masculinities, Sexualities (1994)

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