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Routledge
This book uses a constructionist approach to explore the place of women in psychology, both as participants in the discipline and as subjects of psychological theory, research, and practice. The book provides an explanation of the principles of social constructionism and then utilizes this model as a tool for discovering the influences that have shaped psychology's treatment of women. Certainly... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Re-Viewing Psychology, Re-Placing Women—An End Searching for a Means -- Through a Feminist Prism: Women’s Place in Psychology -- Psychology Constructs the Female, or the Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist -- Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth -- Bias in Psychology -- Through the Looking Glass: No Wonderland Yet! -- The Devaluation of Women’s Competence -- Re-Viewing Psychology: A Constructionist Perspective -- The Measurement of Masculinity and Femininity: Engendering Categorical Realities -- The Meaning of Difference: Gender Theory, Postmodernism, and Psychology -- Psychology Reconstructs the Female, 1968–1988 -- Reconstructing Psychology, Re-Placing Women -- Metatheoretical Dilemmas in the Psychology of Gender -- Integrating the Feminist Critique and the Crisis in Social Psychology: Another Look at Research Methods -- Placing Women in the History of Psychology: The First American Women Psychologists -- Family Change and Gender Differences: Implications for Theory and Practice -- Women-Inclusive Psychology: New Answers, New Questions -- Doing Gender -- The Psychology of Women and Conservatism: Rediscovering Social Change -- Feminism, Psychology, and the Paradox of Power -- Differing with Deconstruction: A Feminist Critique
Biography
Janis S. Bohan is professor of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
