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

Greene, Sheila 1946- (author.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780415730174 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780415730181 (hardback)
ISBN: 041573018X (hardback)
ISBN: 0415730171 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781315758169 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xi, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-183) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Building blocks for a critical analysis -- Developmental psychology: new perspectives -- Female development: traditional approaches -- Woman-centered developmental theories -- Biology and the changing body -- The making of the female self -- Social change and social clocks -- Thinking about time and the psychological development of girls and women.