1st Edition

Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology

Edited By Patricia H. Miller, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick Copyright 2000
    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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


    Biography

    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.

    "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