Gender as Soft AssemblyGender as Soft Assembly 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, Adrienne Harris argues that children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. And she proffers new developmental models to capture the fluid, constructed, and creative experiences of becoming and being gendered. According to Harris, these models, and the images to which they give rise, articulate not only with contemporary relational psychoanalysis but also with recent research into the origins of mentalization and symbolization. In urging us to think of gender as co-constructed in a variety of relational contexts, Harris enlarges her psychoanalytic sensibility with the insights of attachment theory, linguistics, queer theory, and feminist criticism. Nor is she inattentive to the impact of history and culture on gender meanings. Special consideration is given to chaos theory, which Harris positions at the cutting edge of developmental psychology and uses to generate new perspectives and new images for comprehending and working clinically with gender. |
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... Chaos Theory as a Model for Development II Gender as Soft Assembly 4 Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis 5 Tomboys' Stories 6 Gender as a Strange Attractor: Gender's Multidimensionality 7 Genders Emerge in Contexts 8 Chaos Theory as a ...
... Chaos Theory as a Model for Development II Gender as Soft Assembly 4 Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis 5 Tomboys' Stories 6 Gender as a Strange Attractor: Gender's Multidimensionality 7 Genders Emerge in Contexts 8 Chaos Theory as a ...
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... chaos theory, with its particular application to the study of development, nonlinear dynamic systems theory (Thelen and Smith, 1994). Known under a number of different names (complexity theory, nonlinear dynamic systems theory, chaos ...
... chaos theory, with its particular application to the study of development, nonlinear dynamic systems theory (Thelen and Smith, 1994). Known under a number of different names (complexity theory, nonlinear dynamic systems theory, chaos ...
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... chaos systems theory addresses one of the concerns of many critics of developmental theory, namely, that the desired normative adult outcome is foreshadowed and predicted from the beginning. Developmental theorizing that already knows ...
... chaos systems theory addresses one of the concerns of many critics of developmental theory, namely, that the desired normative adult outcome is foreshadowed and predicted from the beginning. Developmental theorizing that already knows ...
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... chaos theory, who exhibit a considerable commitment to freedom. Stuart Kauffman (1995) describes the particular feature of chaos theory's computational form: The theory of computation is replete with deep theorems. Among the most ...
... chaos theory, who exhibit a considerable commitment to freedom. Stuart Kauffman (1995) describes the particular feature of chaos theory's computational form: The theory of computation is replete with deep theorems. Among the most ...
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... theory making seem compelling. As a feminist, I have made them myself. The problem for me is that no aspect of ... chaos theory is to see complexity and coherence and structure as outcomes of interaction, subtly but powerfully elaborated ...
... theory making seem compelling. As a feminist, I have made them myself. The problem for me is that no aspect of ... chaos theory is to see complexity and coherence and structure as outcomes of interaction, subtly but powerfully elaborated ...
Contents
Timelines and Temporalities | |
Chaos Theory as a Model for Development | |
Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis | |
Tomboys Stories | |
Genders Multidimensionality | |
Genders Emerge in Contexts | |
Chaos Theory as a Map to Contemporary Gender Theorists | |
Learning | |
Relational Mourning as Shared Labor | |
Endnotes | |
References | |
Subject Index | |
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