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Women as Mothers and the Making of the European Mind: A Contribution to the History of Developmental Psychology and Primary Socialization
Author(s) -
NIESTROJ BRIGITTE H.E.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1994.tb00257.x
Subject(s) - socialization , humanism , subject (documents) , psychology , epistemology , sociology , developmental psychology , humanistic psychology , child development , law , philosophy , library science , political science , computer science
A major purpose of this essay is to show that our assumptions regarding human development in general, and in particular, the mother and child have their roots in a Christian‐humanistic tradition. I also wish to locate the origins of the discourse on the mother and child within a critical historical review of notions of a changing anthropology of the human subject. The working hypothesis is as follows: A changing view of the human being is associated with a changing approach to child care and child development. This changing approach to child is accompanied by a ‘new woman’. Women are newly constructed when children, and thus a future person and a future society is defined.