Gender as Soft Assembly
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
Publisher: The Analytic Press
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780881633702
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychoanalysis; Gender identity; Psychology; Sex (Psychology); Developmental - General; Gender Studies; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychology & Psychiatry / Emotions; Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality; Human Sexuality; Psychotherapy - General; Developmental psychology
Description: "In urging us to think of gender as coconstructed in a variety of relational contexts, Adrienne 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."--Jacket.