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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... similar in form . Their narrative lines tend to be linear ( that is , strongly related to an explicit goal state , the career or quest ) and progressive ( the action moves toward this goal ) . Manstories also tend to be characterized by ...
... similar in terms of attention to bodily descriptions than those of adolescents and whether older people tell more similar stories of embodiment than younger adults do . Although the full complexity of these accounts cannot be conveyed ...
... similar to a pass thrown by a quarterback . Is it caught or not ? Is it intercepted ? Is the quarterback sacked ? Questions such as what was accomplished with a particular remark , how it fit with other preceding and concurrent remarks ...
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 |