ABSTRACT

This collection of original essays integrates the exciting recent scholarship on feminist theories and methods into developmental psychology. It also acquaints women's studies scholars with issues in developmental psychology that raise interesting questions for feminist theories. Its focus goes beyond that of traditional scholarship that tends to focus only on sex differences and sex roles; instead it considers alternative views of what is worth studying, how one should study it, etc. The chapters provide new, feminist perspectives on topics of great current interest to developmental psychologists.

part I|42 pages

Feminist Perspectives and Developmental Psychology

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

Beyond Gender as a Variable

chapter 2|18 pages

Feminist Theories

Implications for Developmental Psychology

chapter 3|14 pages

Engendering Development

Metaphors of Change

part II|82 pages

Cognitive Development

chapter 5|23 pages

Entering a Community of Minds

“Theory of Mind” from a Feminist Standpoint

chapter 6|21 pages

Accuracy, Authority, and Voice

Feminist Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory

part III|113 pages

Revisioning Social and Cognitive Development

chapter 11|23 pages

Positionality and Thought

On the Gendered Foundations of Thought, Culture, and Development

chapter 12|23 pages

Naming, Naturalizing, Normalizing

“The Child” as Fact and Artifact

part IV|16 pages

The Other Half of the Partnership Developmental Psychology can inform Feminism

chapter 13|14 pages

Engendering Development—Developing Feminism

Defining the Partnership