Feminist Social Psychologies
Subtitle: International Perspectives
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780335193554
Subjects: Feminism; Social research & statistics; Social, group or collective psychology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Psychology Of Women; Sociology; Feminist psychology; Psychoanalysis and feminism; Psychology; Social Psychology; Women
First sentence: In 'Seventies Questions for Thirties Women: Gender and Generation in a Study of Early Women Psychoanalysts' (Chodorow, 1989), I reflected on a methodological dilemma with which I was confronted.
Description: 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.