ABSTRACT
Sociologists (Barrett, 1980) and biologists (Wilson, 1978) have variously sought the historical and biological determinants of current sexual divisions in society. Psychologists, in contrast, have been less concerned with the determinants of these divisions, than with how individuals come to be located psychologically in relation to them. Some have been strongly influenced by biological determinism, others variously by social-learning, cognitive-developmental and psychoanalytic theory. This chapter evaluates these approaches and proposes a missing element in them all.
