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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... tell of their lives are ventriloquated through the narratives that the culture has made available to them . Even feminists who are critical of aspects of both empiricism and standpoint positions resist jumping on the postmodernist band ...
... tell their personal narratives according to the forms that would be suitable to their male colleagues . They are in a cultural hiatus , with a paucity of stories to tell . ( How does one become when no story can be found ? ) The ...
... tell it like it is . At least , that is what they tell me . The analog of analyst and artist is apt , I think . And scientists are often more artistic in their interpretations and analyses than they admit . Some theorists argue that the ...
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 |