Problem: Nancy Chodorow is an American sociologist who expanded upon some of Freud's ideas about gender, sexuality, and psychoanalysis. In The Reproduction of Mothering (1978), she argues that: Mothering is instinctual to women Men become dominant due to inadequacies in the mothering that they received Women are inferior to men based on sociological and psychological factors Boys and girls are born with a natural disdain for both parents. Need Assignment Help?