Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology

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 DevelopmentalPsychology and co-author of Cognitive Development andConceptual Development: Piaget's Legacy EllinKofsky 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 DevelopmentalPsychology of Planning: Why, How, and When Do We Plan?,Blueprints for Thinking: The Role of Planning inCognitive Development, and Conceptual Development:Piaget's Legacy.

I. Feminist Perspectives and Developmental Psychology:What are the Issues?
1. Introduction: Beyond Gender as a Variable
Patricia H. Miller and Ellin KofskyScholnick
2. Feminist Theories: Implications for Developmental Psychology
Sue V. Rosser and Patricia H.Miller
3. Engendering Development: Metaphors of Change
Ellin Kofsky Scholnick
II. CognitiveDevelopment: 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 thePartnership: Developmental Psychology Can InformFeminism
13. Engendering Development - Developing Feminism: Defining the Partnership
Ellin KofskyScholnick and Patricia H. Miller