Resisting Gender - Twenty-Five Years of Feminist Psychology

Informationen zum Autor Rhoda K Unger is Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University and Visiting Scholar in women's studies at Brandeis University. She is co-author of the bestselling textbook Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology (2nd Edition, 1996). Klappentext This volume provides a reflexive social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field of research and teaching. Core areas of concern in feminist psychology are examined, including discrimination, power and social control, critique of theory and content in psychology, and epistemology. Resisting Gender outlines the stages through which the psychology of women has moved, and highlights the ongoing questions and dilemmas for the field. Rhoda Unger has been involved with the discipline as a researcher, teacher, author and leader since its inception, and is in a unique position to introduce us to, and offer her perspective on, the key debates and concerns that have driven, or been driven by, the field of the psychology of women. Zusammenfassung This study offers a social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field. The author examines areas of concern in women's psychology! including discrimination! power and social control! critique of theory and content in psychology! and epistemology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Names/Histories/Names Feminism and Empiricism in Psychology Power, Status, Deviance, Stigma The Problem Is Always Power Feminist Conversations about Method and Content Ideology, Epistemology and Other Covert Agendas Thinking It Over

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rhoda K Unger, Rhoda K K Unger, Rhoda K. Unger, Rhoda K. K. Unger, Rhoda Kesler Unger, Rhoda L. Unger, Unger Rhoda K.
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.09.1998
• EAN: 9780803978249
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7824-9
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Gender and Psychology; Gender and Psychology Series; Gender and Psychology Series; Gender and Psychology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Philosophy & theory of education, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Philosophy and theory of education, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychology of Gender;Psychology of Women