Nancy J. Chodorow is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture" (1999), "Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond" (1994), and "Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory" (1989).