Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development

1 February 1993

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology

Vol. 3 (1) , 11-35
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353593031002

Abstract

For over a century, psychologists have described adolescence as a time of heightened psychological risk for girls. This article explores a relational impasse or crisis of connection that we have observed in girls' lives at adolescence by tracing through time the thoughts and feelings of two 12-year-old girls who were interviewed as part of a 5-year longitudinal study of girls' psychological development. Using a voice-centered relational method, we join the experiences of struggle and resistance at this developmental juncture with the problems that have been seen as central to the psychology of women.

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