Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology / Edition 1

by Patricia H. Miller, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415921787
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/24/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Patricia H. Miller is Professor of Psychology and an affiliate member in Women's Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of Theories of Developmental Psychology and co-author of Cognitive Development and Conceptual Development: Piaget's Legacy

Ellin Kofsky Scholnick is Professor of Psychology and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a co-author of The Developmental Psychology of Planning: Why, How, and When Do We Plan?, Blueprints for Thinking: The Role of Planning in Cognitive Development, and Conceptual Development: Piaget's Legacy.

Table of Contents

I. Feminist Perspectives and Developmental Psychology: What are the Issues?
1. Introduction: Beyond Gender as a Variable
Patricia H. Miller and Ellin Kofsky Scholnick
2. Feminist Theories: Implications for Developmental Psychology
Sue V. Rosser and Patricia H. Miller
3. Engendering Development: Metaphors of Change
Ellin Kofsky Scholnick
II. Cognitive Development: Embedded, Connected, and Situated
4. The Development of Interconnected Thinking
Patricia H. Miller
5. Entering a Community of Minds: "Theory of Mind" from a Feminist Standpoint
Katherine Nelson, Sarah Henseler, and Daniela Plesa
6. Accuracy, Authority, and Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
Robyn Fivush
7. A Feminist Perspective on the Devlopment of Self-Knowledge
Melissa K. Welch-Ross
III. Revisioning Social and Cognitive Development
8. The Social Construction and Socialization of Gender during Development
Campbell Leaper
9. Toward a Gender-Balanced Approach to the Study of Social-Emotional Development: A Look at Relational Aggression
Nicki R. Crick and Amanda J. Rose
10. Gender Essentialism in Cognitive Development
Susan A. Gelman and Marianne G. Taylor
11. Positionality and Thought: On the Gendered Foundations of Thought, Culture, and Development
Rachel Joffe Falmagne
12. Naming, Naturalizing, Normalizing: "The Child" as Fact and Artifact
Lorraine Code
IV. The Other Half of the Partnership: Developmental Psychology Can Inform Feminism
13. Engendering Development - Developing Feminism: Defining the Partnership
Ellin Kofsky Scholnick and Patricia H. Miller

Editorial Reviews

"A sparkling set of essays at the confluence of developmental psychology and feminist theory. This sophisticated collection bubbles over with provocative and vigorously argued ideas, novel questions, and innovative modes of inquiry. It's a gem." — Jeanne Maracek, Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program at Swarthmore College
"Miller and Scholnick's book is cause for celebration: at long last, a feminist perspective on developmental psychology. The ideas presented in this book transform the study of sex differences." — Peggy Miller, Professor of Psychology and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois
"Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology combines critical analysis with generative, positive frameworks for improving both theory and practice." — Erica Burman, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at The Manchester Metropolitan University

From the Publisher

This collection of original essays integrates the recent scholarship on feminist theories with the concepts of developmental psychology. It provides both a critique of developmental psychology and a framework for a broader and more complex account of development. Contributors include philosophers, psychologists, and women's studies professors from numerous American universities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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