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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... get happy or belligerent and raise some hell . Flying and hell raising - one fueled the other . ( Yeager & Janos , 1985 , p . 173 ) John Paul Getty ( 1986 ) : For some reason 64 FEMINIST RECONSTRUCTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY.
... reason , I have always been much freer in recording my emotions and feelings in my diaries . . . . Taken as a whole , they might serve to provide insight into a father's true feeling about his sons . 1939 Los Angeles , California : May ...
... reason for this is that they are so difficult and unappealing linguistically that only those heavily invested in a particular topic plunge ahead through the thickets of arcane language and statistics . Performative pieces trade in the ...
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 |