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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... POSTMODERNISM / POSTMODERN FEMINISM : JOCKEYING FOR POSITIONS Postmodernism invites us to engage in continual disillusionment of the grandiose fantasies that have brought us to the brink of annihilation . -Jane Flax ( 1993a , p . 147 ) ...
... Postmodern Psychology The French Connection : Helene Cixous , Luce Irigaray , and Julia Kristeva To reiterate , the third feminist epistemological position defined by Sandra Harding ( 1986b ) was the postmodern . In the 1980s , feminist ...
... postmodern position . The prominent author bell hooks ( 1990 ) has said : We have too long had imposed on us from both the outside and the inside a narrow , constricting notion of blackness . Postmodern critiques of essentialism ... can ...
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 |