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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... seem to sacrifice their lives to careers , the women seem to tell the story in reverse . This is not to say that women ... seems to be the result of what is fundamentally an antagonistic encounter between themselves and other people or ...
... seems a constricted " out - of - body " experience , one that devalues poten- tially significant aspects of human life . For the male , the female's mode of index- ing life seems often irrelevant to the tasks at hand , lends itself to ...
... seems to have stuck . Men don't get older , they just get better , it seems . At least until their untimely demises . Yet despite all this negative publicity coming from all directions about the dire straits of women at 50 , when I ...
Contents
The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology | 9 |
Pieces of a Dream | 52 |
Bodies Under Construction | 72 |
Copyright | |
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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 |