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Deconstructing Developmental Psychology Twenty years on: Reflections,
implications and empirical work
Agnes Andens, Jane Callaghan and Catriona Macleod
Feminism & Psychology 2013 23: 418
DOI: 10.1177/0959353513495213
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Deconstructing
Developmental Psychology
Twenty years on:
Reflections, implications
and empirical work

Feminism & Psychology

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Edited by Agnes Andens,

Jane Callaghan and Catriona Macleod

Erica Burmans book Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (DDP), which

appeared in rst edition in 1994 and in second edition in 2008, critically appraised
mainstream psychologys approaches to child development, using feminist and
post-structuralist theory. In it she examines the historical contingencies and cultural assumptions that form the conditions of possibility for the elaboration of the
various Developmental Psychology approaches. She shows how these approaches
form powerful discursive resources in regulating women and families, in marginalizing working class and ethnic minority people, and in pathologizing mothers.
In this special focus, to appear over three issues, we seek to unpack the impact of
the book since its rst publication 20 years ago.
Forrester (1999) noted the important critical and theoretical contribution of the
rst edition of the book, but posed the question: Will the dominant themes within
developmental psychology hear (or even recognize) the challenges being posed by a
post-structuralist [and we may add feminist] anti-developmentalism? (p. 305).
Claiborne (2010) in her Feminism & Psychology review of the second edition indicates that DDP is an outstanding achievement from a feminist scholar who has
done so much theoretical analysis and applied critique of developmental work
(p. 287). She points out, however, that many of its media and policy examples
are taken from the UK context.
We invite contributions that draw on research, theory, practice, personal reections or contextual realities, and that respond to one or more of the following
questions: How have the challenges, in particular the feminist challenges, posed
in DDP been taken up in Developmental Psychology? How has DDP impacted on
research and on practice (in particular, education)? How has DDP paved the way
for researchers and practitioners, especially those operating outside the UK and the
global North, to examine the practices of Developmental Psychology in their contexts? How may the insights generated in DDP be extended or challenged?
Contributions may be in the form of original articles (up to 8000 words), observations and commentaries (5002000 words), and brief reports (up to 3000 words).

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For further details, consult the manuscript submission guidelines at http://fap.

sagepub.com/. Submissions will be subject to the usual review process. Queries
may be sent to contact: Agnes Andens on agnes.andenas@psykologi.uio.no,
Jane Callaghan on Jane.Callaghan@northampton.ac.uk or Catriona Macleod on
c.macleod@ru.ac.za
Due date for submissions: 31 October 2013
References
Claiborne LB (2010) Review. Erica Burman: Deconstructing Developmental Psychology;
Erica Burman: Developments: Child, Image, Nation. Feminism & Psychology 20(2):
284287.
Forrester M (1999) Essay review: Recognizing the gauntlet: Anti-developmentalism in developmental psychology. British Journal of Psychology 90(2): 305313.

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