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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... period from which it is emerging ( K. J. Gergen , 1991 ) . Many scholars agree that postmodernism , as the name suggests , is the period that comes after modernism and stands in opposition to it . Others have suggested that ...
Narrative, Gender, and Performance Mary Gergen. came following a crisis period in his career at Ford or at Chrysler . Iacocca writes , " Above all , a person with diabetes has to avoid stress . Unfortunately , with the path I had chosen ...
... period of my life . For my colleagues and me , this was fire in the belly time . We were high from smoking our own brand - a combination of hard work and big dreams . ( p . 65 ) Chuck Yeager : I don't recommend going to war as a way of ...
Contents
The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology | 9 |
Pieces of a Dream | 52 |
Bodies Under Construction | 72 |
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