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13 - Gender

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2019

By
Alexandra Rutherford
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Wade E. Pickren
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Wade E. Pickren
Affiliation:
Ithaca College, New York
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Summary

This chapter presents an intellectual history of gender by examining how ideas and theories about gender have been constructed and deployed in psychology since the late 19th nineteenth century, largely in North America and Western Europe. It covers the late- 19th nineteenth-century debates about gender difference and the influence of evolutionary thinking, attempts to measure masculinity and femininity, psychoanalytic theories, the mid-20th twentieth-century work of John Money and Robert Stolorow on gender identity, and the ongoing tradition of assessing sex/gender differences. The chapter concludes by considering feminist, social constructionist, discursive, and intersectional approaches to gender, and summarizes recent work on how to move beyond binary thinking in psychological research and theory

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genderfemininitymasculinitynonbinaryintersectionalityfeminismpsychoanalysisgender identity
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology , pp. 345 - 370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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