Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology

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