- years ago, really, i was immersed in infant research - infant temperament
is prenatal, babies are born with kinds of temperament that specifically
direct the kinds of interactions that nurses and parents provide;
personality is, to me, inextricable from the temperamental dispositions
that emerge
at birth;
as well, sex conditions a considerable amount of social interaction, girls
being coddled and boys being tossed around more, different pitches of
vocal interactions,
based on the presence of vaginas or penii -
not to mention the "ambiguous" genitals contexts, of babies born with both
and
the (largely arbitrary) decisions to choose the "gender" for the baby,
snip snip, you're a girl,
and so on -
there is, really a a wealth of research substantiating the relations
between infancy & personality complex bioemotional and physiological
interactions.
diane
(pls don't ask me for refs - i've none handy; but these are not at all
difficult to find in "infant temperament" studies and sex/gender medical
studies, for example)
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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