Feminism and Discourse
Subtitle: Psychological Perspectives (Gender and Psychology series)
Contributors: Sue Wilkinson (Editor); Celia Kitzinger (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: January 17, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780803978010
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Social research & statistics; Psychology Of Women; Psychology; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Feminism; Discourse Analysis; Feminist psychology
First sentence: The transformation of the girl-child into the bleeding woman is, and has been, for me a problematic and fascinating subject for research.
Description: Discourse analysis has become an increasingly popular approach to research across the social sciences, and a particularly important tool for feminist psychologists. Feminism and Discourse provides a showcase for a wide range of discourse analytical work in psychology from a feminist perspective. It constitutes a thorough critical evaluation of this approach for the feminist project of intellectual, social and political change. Original contributions by leading researchers explore the benefits and contradictions of discourse analysis and consider its value for feminist psychology. The first part of the book illustrates the application of discourse analysis to four key topics of feminist concern: adolescent knowledge about menstruation, sexual harassment, gendered representations of childhood, and anorexia nervosa. The second part contains five assessments of the usefulness of discourse analysis - both as theory and as method - for feminists.

This book will be of great interest to critical theorists and discourse analysts across the social sciences, as well as to students and lecturers in social psychology, the psychology of women, psychology and language, women's studies, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.