As stated in chapter 2 it states three theories that are subdivided into the parts for better understanding:
Biological theories: Chromosomes and Brain Development, Psychological theories: Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic feminism: Cognitive Development and Social learning, Critical/Cultural theories: Shared assumptions, Multiracial and global feminists, and queer theory.
Biological theories state that gender is determined by two biological factors: hormones and chromosomes which lead to brain development and create gendered behavior. In psychological theories states the development of human thoughts, emotions, and behavior similarly critical/cultural theories states the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture to reveal and challenge power structures. Despite the major influence and co-relation of all these theories in our life, here I would like to talk about psychological theories more in detail relating to the other two theories. I feel like whatever we do is based on our emotions and our emotions are again affected by the activities that we perform in day to day life. Let us take a basic example. If I do not have enough sleep in the night or have bad dreams, we are going to have cranky morning developing anger or stressful morning. As a human, we develop a different kind of emotions like love, anger, fear, shame, excitement, embarrassment, and so on (social learning). Then it also talks about cognitive development which basically includes how we develop our skills and knowledge to understand what’s going around us which is includes the part of brain development and cognitive development again somehow affected by our social values and norms.
Let’s take a child born in East Asia (example Myself) and a child born here in the United States (example my first cousin). Though we are related by blood due to the differences where we were born, grew up, surrounded by people with totally different social and cultural values, we have totally different perspective. A very common example, while living my life back I develop the very strong emotions of fear. And it’s very common in Asian society. And I am not talking here about the fear that rises due to insecurity but due to physical punishment. Because when we make any kind of mistake either it’s in-home or school, we used to get the physical punishment, so the development of fears is in every single child, in the society where I grew up and so did I. But my cousin grew up in the environment, where she didn’t have to worry about physical punishment, but she did develop the fear in different ways. My aunt used to detent her from going to the swimming class (which she loves the most) if she happens to make a mistake knowingly. Personally, I believe she developed healthier emotions than mine (Just relating with the fear)
SOURCES
Cherry, Kendra. “How Theories Are Used in Psychology.” Verywell Mind, Verywell Mind, 3 Feb. 2020, www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-theory-2795970#:~:text=In psychology, theories are used, make predictions about future behaviors
“Critical Theory.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 June 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#:~:text=Critical theory is reflective, by individual and psychological factors.
