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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... less attractive after menopause , " " get emotionally more unstable after meno- pause , " and " become less interested in sex . " These represented a majority of the questions asked , and I think the responses indi- cate that the ...
... less highly evolved . Elsewhere , it is difficult to find cognitive / developmental psychologists who have supported dialogic forms of development . Most have not discussed imaginal discourse , and those who have tend to minimize its ...
... less elegant , and much less French . The problem ... my problem : How to compos ( t ) e a postmodernist pose , one that does not crush my feminist folds . Second Woman : Irigaray speaks of the folds of femininity in perpetual embrace ...
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 |