ABSTRACT
The articles and books listed in this chapter provide modern comprehensive perspectives or overviews of female psychology. They include papers and books written since 1940 that elaborate, revise, or dissent from classical psychoanalytic views. These writings include both new formulations and concepts that are within the evolving psychoanalytic mainstream and other formulations that offer alternative or reactive perspectives. Jean Baker Miller’s Psychoanalysis and Women reviews early papers from the 1920s to 1950s by K. Horney, Clara Thompson, and Gregory Zilboorg. In Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, Nancy Chodorow reviews dominant trends in the psychoanalytic literature on gender: new attention to genital awareness in the second year; arguments for primary feminine genital awareness; attention to the development of gender identity; and concern with cross-gender transference. Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Issues, reissued in 1977, has become a classic in psychoanalytic inquiry into female psychology, covering a variety of topics by a number of authors.
