This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The authors also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt and describe how externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence influence a healthy development.
Bevat de bijdragen aan het colloquium ‘Genderstudies/een genre apart?' dat door Sophia in 2005 werd georganiseerd. De artikels zijn ingedeeld in tien thema’s: lichaam en reproductie, tewerkstelling, gender en/in burgerschap, genderstudies: reflecties, de zij-kant van de vaderlandse geschiedenis, de/constructie van gender, gender en beleid, literatuur en vertoog, vrouwenbeweging(en) en de productie van kennis, vrouwen in beeld.