La Psicología del Género en el siglo XXI

Abstract

Traditionally subject to the analysis of diverse scientific disciplines, gender is a construct that records the relevance that all cultures have granted to the dichotomy man-woman since Antiquity. Conceived of as social instrument, gender has cast its [ideological] constraints both upon groups and individuals. It has assigned such different roles and spaces that almost two separate species of human beings have emerged and settled the basis of personal identity. Psychology has approached gender both in its collective and individual dimensions, branching off into a new psychological discipline, Psychology of Gender, which highlights the overriding role of gender in human behaviour. These new studies attribute
gender to particular contents which manifest themselves in biological, social, cultural and psychological aspects of reality.