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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... empirical science striving for objec- tivity and value - neutrality ” ( p . 381 ) . To counter this threat , many feminist empiricists hold that their political values are influential in the way they approach psychological research ...
... empirical scientists , they gain a measure of respectability that offsets their commitment to gender issues ( Eagly , 1995 ; Unger , 1988 ) . Feminist Empiricists and Gender Identity Feminist empiricists seldom ask the question : Who is ...
... women and men are depends greatly upon how the variable is measured , as is true of most of the traits under study . In reaching these conclu- sions , feminist empiricists rely heavily on the validity of the studies under review , which ...
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 |