Author: Steele, Marilyn
Title: Life in the Round: A Model of Adult Female Development
Description: Ann Arbor, U.M.I.Dissertation...Service, (1987). orig.wrappers. 21x16cm, v, 330 pp.. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ A University Microfilms authorized xerographic facsimile of the unpublished 1986 Wright Institute doctoral dissertation. Contents: Introduction: The Cultural Context; Hypotheses; Epistemology: Backround; The Evolutionary Paradigm; Sex Differences; Literature Review: Female Psychology; Adult Development; Methodology; Developmental Themes in Individual Contexts; Results: Discontinuous Change & Continuity; Identity or Sense of Self-in-Relation; Personality as Fluid, Emergent Process; Age &Order of Developmental Tasks; Power as Domination or Caring; Creativity as Personal Authority; Conclusions; Appendices.

Keywords: Developmental Psychology, Female Development, Personality, Women, Gender, Women's, Social, Feminine, Life Span