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Title Feminist social psychologies : international perspectives / edited by Sue Wilkinson
Published Buckingham ; Bristol, PA : Open University Press, 1996

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Description xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Feminist social psychologies: A decade of development / Sue Wilkinson -- 1. Seventies questions for thirties women: Some nineties reflections / Nancy J. Chodorow -- 2. Women's desire and sexual violence discourse / Nicola Gavey -- 3. Containing questions of gender and power: The discursive limits of 'sameness' and 'difference' / Michelle Fine and Judi Addelston -- 4. 'Race, racism, and sexuality in the life narratives of immigrant women / Olivia M. Espin -- 5. From objectified body to embodied subject: A biographical approach to cosmetic surgery / Kathy Davis -- 6. The token lesbian chapter / Celia Kitzinger -- 7. Working-class women: Psychological and social aspects of survival / Valerie Walkerdine -- 8. Using the master's tools: Epistemology and empiricism / Rhoda K. Unger -- 9. You and I and she: Memory-work and the construction of self / Niamh Stephenson, Susan Kippax and June Crawford -- 10. Q-methodology as feminist methodology: Women's views and experiences of pornography / Charlene Y. Senn -- 11. Appropriating questionnaires and rating scales for a feminist psychology: A multi-method approach to gender and emotion / Stephanie A. Shields and Jill J. Crowley -- 12. Missing voices, changing meanings: Developing a voice-centred, relational method and creating an interpretive community / Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan and Amy M. Sullivan -- 13. Meta-analysis and feminist psychology / Kelly Shaw-Barnes and Alice H. Eagly
Summary "This wide-ranging international collection provides a showcase for the richness and diversity of contemporary research in feminist social psychology. Including contributions from leading feminist social psychologists in the UK, continental Europe, North America and Australasia, it reviews the growth and development of the field over the last ten years, highlights theoretical and methodological advances, and looks forward to its future within - and beyond - the academy. Contributing authors utilize a wide variety of theoretical frameworks (ranging from feminist empiricism through social constructionism to psychoanalysis) to examine key feminist topics, such as sexual violence, pornography, femininity and beauty, emotion, social class, and sameness/difference. They also demonstrate the use of a broad range of quantitative and qualitative methods in feminist research. These include: questionnaires and rating scales, voice-relational methods, discourse analysis, memory work, biography, focus groups, Q-methodology, and meta-analysis. The eclecticism of this book makes it an ideal teaching text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on social psychology, psychology of women/feminist psychology, gender issues, critical psychology, and research methods. It will be of value on other social science courses and in a multidisciplinary women's studies context."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminism.
Feminist psychology.
Psychoanalysis and feminism.
Social psychology.
Women -- Psychology.
Author Wilkinson, Sue, 1954-
LC no. 96008815
ISBN 0335193544 (paperback)
0335193552