The psychological development of girls and women : rethinking change in time

Resource Information

The work The psychological development of girls and women : rethinking change in time represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The psychological development of girls and women : rethinking change in time

Title remainder

rethinking change in time

Statement of responsibility

Sheila Greene

Creator

• Greene, Sheila, 1946-
• Greene, Sheila, 1946-

Subject

• Developmental psychology
• Feminist psychology
• Feminist psychology
• Feminist psychology
• Girls -- Psychology
• Girls -- Psychology
• Girls -- Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General
• PSYCHOLOGY / General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
• Women -- Psychology
• Women -- Psychology
• Women -- Psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Developmental psychology

Language

eng

Summary

"This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women, and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches - ranging from orthodox psychoanalysis to relational and post-modern theories - and argues that even those which claim to focus on development have presented a view of women's lives as fixed and determined by their nature or their past. These theories, she believes, should be rejected because of their inherent lack of validity and their frequently oppressive implications for women. Essential but often neglected insights from the more compelling developmental and feminist theories are woven together within a theoretical framework that emphasizes temporality, emergence, and human agency. The result is a liberating theory of women's psychological development as constantly emerging and changing in time rather than as static and fixed by their nature, socio-cultural context, and personal history. Updated for a new generation of readers, The Psychological Development of Girls and Women will continue to be essential reading for students and researchers in the psychology of women, developmental psychology, and women's studies"--

Member of

• Women and psychology

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Women and psychology