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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... lives are antagonistic to other significant social val- ues , those associated with women's narratives and lives . Particularly in revisioning these stories , I saw the basic values of each clustering around themes of power versus ...
... lives , we may hope to alter the very experiences of those lives as well . -Annette Kolodny ( 1980 , p . 258 ) Many voices singing different tunes can sound noisy . Do you feel drowned out ? We must sing like mermaids and hope that a ...
... lives . The survey then addressed the question of the function of social ghosts in the respondents ' lives by asking for effects on daily life of these imaginal inter- actions . The questionnaires were administered to 76 college ...
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 |