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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... chair type . I can't just sit around , watch television , drink beer , get fat , and fade out " ( Yeager & Janos , 1985 , pp . 422- 423 ) . Interestingly , Yeager treats his alcohol consumption Gendered Narratives 83.
... consumption as a part of the " boys will be boys " syndrome in his younger years . As an older man , alcohol , without it ever having appeared to be a problem in his life story , disappears . The begrudg- ing interruption of the heroic ...
... consumed fragment " of an understand- ing that is only experienced in the text , the text which is evocative and participatory , bringing the joint work of the ethnographer and his native partners together with the hermeneutic process ...
Contents
The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology | 9 |
Pieces of a Dream | 52 |
Bodies Under Construction | 72 |
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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 |