Gender Approach in the Context of L.S. Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Psychology

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Abstract

The paper compares the main ideas of the cultural-historical psychology with the theoretical foundations of a new scientific branch, gender researches in psychology. The author analyses one of the most well-known theories of the social construction of gender, S. Bem's «enculturated lens theory», and shows how similar these ideas are to the ones proposed by L.S. Vygotsky concerning, firstly, the development of human mind through 'ingrowing' into the culture, and secondly, the social formation of mind and gender.

General Information

Keywords: culural-historical theory, ideal and real forms, appopriation, mediation, gender approach

Journal rubric: Discussions and Discourses

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Semyonova L.E. Gender Approach in the Context of L.S. Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Psychology. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2008. Vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 69–73. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Lidia E. Semyonova, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General and Social Psychology, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod — National Research University, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5077-394X, e-mail: verunechka08@list.ru

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