Psychological Development of Girls and Women

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.

"The Psychological Development of Women and Girls is as relevant today as it was in its original publication. Students and established professionals alike will find that Sheila Green’s reframing of human development provides a fresh perspective on girls and women, and is a vital resource for learning and research." – Annie G. Rogers, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College, USA Praise for the first edition"An important corrective to 'malestream' developmental psychology. Deserves to be standard reading on all developmental psychology courses." – Valerie Walkerdine, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia"Greene’s argument for greater cohesion between the psychology of women and developmental psychology fields motivates the reader to reconsider notions of women and girls. The book provides researchers and educators new ways of understanding and promoting diversity and independence for girls and women." – Annette Hatcher Parkerson in Educational Researcher, Vol 33, No 6

• 1. Introduction: Building blocks for a critical analysis 2. Developmental psychology: New perspectives 3. Female development: Traditional approaches 4. Woman-centred developmental theories 5. Biology and the changing body 6. The making of the female self 7. Social change and social clocks 8. Thinking about time and the psychological development of girls and women