Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender, and PerformanceSAGE Publications, 2001 - 229 pages Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology introduces a distinctive new mode in doing psychology. This psychology is based on an increasingly popular range of ideas called social constructionism. Within the book, new forms of theory and methods of inquiry relating social constructionism to feminist topics are introduced. Each chapter highlights different topics of special concern within gender studies, especially the psychology of women. The book draws from the central tenets of postmodern inquiry, as played out in the positive framework of social constructionism. Emphasized are reflexivity, the social basis of reality making, the breakdown of traditional narrative forms, the loss of objectivity as a scientific standard, and the possibilities for new forms of doing research. In this respect, the book is unique and serves to provide a point of view on an intriguing movement that is gaining momentum across the social sciences and humanities. |
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... activities and all methods are permitted . Acceptability is determined more by a researcher's stance toward a project than by the nature of the work itself . Yet although it is important to stress the potential inclusiveness of social ...
... activities is almost nonexistent in the repertoire of psychological concepts of development in most academic disciplines today . An important social ghost for me is Eddy Cheever , a famous F1 driver . After watching many races with him ...
... activities and ideas in other scholarly arenas , especially within the postmodern . As men- tioned in Chapter 1 , researchers in anthropology , sociology , women's studies , and other neighboring disciplines have been producing works ...
Contents
The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology | 9 |
Pieces of a Dream | 52 |
Bodies Under Construction | 72 |
Copyright | |
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Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender, and Performance Mary Gergen Limited preview - 2000 |
Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender, and Performance Mary Gergen No preview available - 2001 |