Robyn Fivush Livres

Gender Development is the first book to examine gender from a truly developmental perspective. It looks at the processes involved in the development of gender, addressing sensitive and complex questions. The authors provide an up-to-date integrative review of theory and research, tracing gender development from the moment of conception through adulthood and emphasizing the complex interaction for biology, socialization, and cognition. The topics covered include hormonal influences, moral development, play and friendships, experiences at school and work and psychopathology. This comprehensive overview will fill a real need for a textbook and sourcebook for college and graduate students, parents, teachers, counselors and researchers.

Through family reminiscing, young children learn to interpret their experiences and shape their identities. This book explores how these narratives contribute to the development of an autobiographical self, highlighting the importance of individual and family stories in helping children understand themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world.

This Element delineates how the narrative expression of autobiographical memory develops through everyday interactions that frame the forms and functions of autobiographical remembering. To fully understand autobiographical memory, it must be understood how it functions in the context of lives lived in complex sociocultural contexts.