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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... female constitute a " natural fact " or a cultural performance , or is " naturalness " constituted through discursively constrained performa- tive acts that produce the body through and within the categories of sex ? -Butler ( 1990 , p ...
... female and male bodies over the life span , we attend to the ways in which the gendered body is " spoken " over the life span by various well - known people . The project began with a curiosity concerning how men and women might tell ...
... Female autobiographers present a life story in which body and self are more unified . To be a woman is to be embodied ; to fail in attending to one's corporeal- ity would be to ignore the culturally defined essential core of being . But ...
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 |