FEMINIST EPISTEMS IN THE PRODUCTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: The gender as a device of problematization of the processes of change.

Abstract

This work seeks to map and problematize the production of Developmental Psychology, considering the contributions of feminist studies in this field. For both part of a research design that is distributed in two axes that use the systematic review of literature and documentary analysis. The first will seek to raise and analyze the feminist influences in the Brazilian production of Developmental Psychology. To do so, they will be collected in online digital databases (Scielo, Capes, Google Schoolar, PsycInfo) and analyzed the articles of Brazilian periodicals, dissertations and theses in the area of psychology and especially in the area of Developmental Psychology from of the cross-referencing of descriptors such as psychology, developmental psychology, gender and sexuality, still being able to use other terms referring to age markers (child, adolescent, youth, childhood). In the analysis we will identify the themes, objectives, methods, results, gender concepts used. In a second moment, we will raise and analyze the books (manual and introductory) used in the disciplines that refer to Psychology of Development of psychology courses in Brazil of public and private universities. From online and / or direct consultation with these institutions, we will raise the list of disciplines that are proposed to deal with the processes of change throughout life. The most cited works, in the style of manual / introduction, as well as those specific on the subject of genres and sexualities will be listed. We will seek to identify, as gender is referended and conceptualized by the authors, its relations with the processes of change, its incorporation or not of feminist authorships. In the analysis of the collected material, we will establish dialogues with the production of the theme in Psychology and in the ideas formulated by feminist authors, in their possibilities of alliances in the production of other ways of knowing / doing research in psychology, assuming political and ethical perspectives that approach demands matched by age markers. (AU)