The gender of psychology

Shefer, Tamara/ Boonzaier, Floretta/ Kiguwa, Peace

University of Cape Town Press（2006/04発売）

• ページ数 376 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781919713922

Full Description

Psychology as a discipline has been criticised for perpetuating sexism, reproducing gender inequality, and neglecting marginalised perspectives. Internationally, an increasing attempt is being made to provide a critical gender analysis of the discipline and practice, and to theoreise the contribution that psychology may make to address such issues. This book addresses the diversity of psychological knowledge and practice through the lens of gender.

Contents

(Re)production of knowledge in psychology: Gendered research; narratives of gender and identity constructs; the possibility of a reflexive gaze - the relevance of feminist debates on reflexivity, representation and situated knowledges for psychology; psychoanalysis, sexual difference and the castration problematic; lacan, the meaning of the phallus, and the 'sexed' subject; women as a minority group. De/re-constructing psychological knowledge about gender: Sexualities; early reproduction and gendered assumptions about adolescence and adolescent (hetero)sexuality; a gendered analysis of woman abuse; the prevailing paradigm of 'family' in the 'psy' professions; men and masculinities - psychology and politics; motherhood; 'going places' - black women negotiating race and gender in post-apartheid south africa. Gendered practice and profession; pathological wombs and raging hormones: psychology, reproduction and the female body; western psychiatry and gender identity disorder (gid): a critical perspective; becoming a psychologist - professionalism, feminism, activism.