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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... evidence was public . This was indeed a powerful departure from reliance on disciples , priests , or philosophers , who could deduct the principles of the universe from unquestioned a priori assumptions . In this move to empirical ...
... Evidence that women have been disproportionally diagnosed as " depressed , " " anxious , " or " hypochondriacal " supports the view that women have certain weaknesses that men do not have and that individuals are the source of their ...
... what you found using these methods . There is something so clean and well defined about working with numbers . There was " hard " evidence that participants Other : MG : Other : MG : Other : 108 FEMINIST RECONSTRUCTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY.
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 |