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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... self- description , at least to the reader , if not to the writer , is photographer Ansel Adams's ( 1985 ) account of how he acquired his " parabolic " nose : On the day of the San Francisco earthquake [ April 17 , 1906 ] ... I tumbled ...
... self - defense for her misshapen body : The other children taunted me about ... descriptions . They do not rue their fates , whether it is to be lanky or ... descriptions of the body , and they are often emo- tional in describing their ...
... description of her illegal abortion : I'd been one of those women ... who'd ... self - alteration and in some cases mutilation is evident in various ... self - mutilation are described : That winter , in fact , suicide become one of my ...
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 |