Gender As Soft Assembly

Informationen zum Autor Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Klappentext First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional notion of development as the linear unfolding of predictable stages, the author argues that children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: Relational Developmental Theory. Multiple Selves, Multiple Codes. Timelines and Temporalities. Chaos Theory as a Theory of Development. Part II: Gender as Soft Assembly. Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis. Tomboys' Stories. Gender as a Strange Attractor: Gender's Multidimensionality. Genders Emerge in Contexts. Part III: Developmental Theory and Research. Developmental Applications of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory: Learning How to Mean. Dynamic Skills Theory: Relational Mourning as Shared Labor.

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• Authors: Adrienne Harris, Adrienne (Faculty and Supervisor Harris, Adrienne (New York University Harris, Harris Adrienne, Adrienn Harrris
• Publisher: Erlbaum
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780881634983
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-498-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series; Relational Perspectives Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychology of gender, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)