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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... human productivity on factory lines . In the fields of architecture and engineering , modernism stressed functionality over decoration and the straight- forward over the fanciful . The skylines of American's major cities , pierced by ...
... human life , I became curious about how they might be written about as forms of cultural life . I began to engage more fully in the possibilities of describing who these social ghosts are , where they come from , when they are likely to ...
... human life that would focus as much or more on the study of relationships as on discrete individuals . Let me describe this bold step in the words of Kum - Kum Bhavnani and Donna Haraway ( 1994 ) : The whole question of what counts as ...
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 |