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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... especially feminists , and then spreading across the Atlantic and into every crevice of American cultural life ? Surely the word postmodern has become an echo through all of my work . Al- though I have grown to understand myself as a ...
... Especially for men , the story line of an autobiography is a coherent progres- sive , linear form , with the writer describing early events in such a way that later outcomes are clearly previewed . As noted in Chapter 2 , the climb up ...
... especially as it relates to their own lives . As for the readers , entering into the conversa- tion , even if after the fact , they might come to question their own suppositions about menopause , as well as the ways the scientific and ...
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 |