A thoroughly revised update of Sheila Greene's original and transformative perspective on the psychological development of girls and women which emphasizes the central role of time in shaping all human experience and life trajectories.

Sheila Greene is Professor and Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she was co-founder of the Children's Research Centre and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. Her research interests include the psychology of women and gender, child development and children's issues and developmental theory.

1. Introduction: Building blocks for a critical analysis 2. Developmental psychology: New perspectives 3. Female development: Traditional approaches 4. Woman-centred developmental theories 5. Biology and the changing body 6. The making of the female self 7. Social change and social clocks 8. Thinking about time and the psychological development of girls and women