The Psychological Development of Girls and Women: Rethinking change in time (Women and Psychology) - Hardcover

Greene, Sheila

 
9780415730181: The Psychological Development of Girls and Women: Rethinking change in time (Women and Psychology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041573018X ISBN 13: 9780415730181
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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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 that 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.

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About the Author

Sheila Greene is Professor and Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she was co-founder of the Children’s Research Centre and the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research interests include the psychology of women and gender, child development and children’s issues and developmental theory.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041573018X
ISBN 13 
9780415730181
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
210

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