Chodorow has written a number of influential books in contemporary feminist writing, including "The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender" (1978); "Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory" (1989); "Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond" (1994); and "The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture" (1999). In 1995, Chodorow was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences. In 1996, "The Reproduction of Mothering" was chosen by "Contemporary Sociology" as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years.