Convent girls, feminism, and community psychology

Mulvey, Anne; Gridley, Heather; Gawith, Libby

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“…I had transcended my circumstances and was getting a PhD, was successful as a consultant, and appeared to be getting it all. Privately, I was still caving in to the expectations of Husband ]2 and my ingrained culture, that of the ''good girl'' that blue-collar Catholicism had trained me to be (Mulvey, Gridley, & Gawith, 2001). My quality of life was not as it appeared to be.…”

Section: Implications For Community Psychologymentioning

confidence: 97%

Adopting a feminist perspective is not a linear process

Wolfe¹

2011

Journal Community Psychology

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In this article, I present some of my history and experiences to demonstrate how gender and class affected my career path as a community psychologist. The goal of this article is to show how the internalization of combined gender/class roles influenced my choices, behaviors, and expectations, and how actions of others interacted with my choices and behaviors to contribute to struggles and successes. It illustrates the push-pull that occurred at an individual level that affected my ability to embrace an alternative perspective. I discuss my encounter with second-wave feminism, undergoing the shifting identity in the transition from my blue-collar origins to a white-collar world, my expectations of sisterhood, and the affect of organizational structures and cultures. I use my experience to suggest themes that might be considered in practicing community psychology and, more specifically, feminist community psychology. C 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Early in my career I spent some time immersed in the literature on technological innovation. It culminated in my co-authoring a chapter on decision-making and technological innovation (Wolfe, Fleischer, Morell, & Eveland, 1990). What I learned while working on this project is that adopting an innovation or a new idea is not a simple process, nor is it necessarily linear. As I reflected on my own adoption of a feminist perspective for this article, I realized it ran a similar course. Each time I began I would like to thank Anne Mulvey and Holly Angelique for their support and encouragement throughout this process. I would also like to thank Michele Schlehofer who took time to review this manuscript and provide very helpful feedback and support. Finally, thank you to the anonymous viewers whose constructive feedback helped me to continue shaping this article. to move toward the adoption decision new information came in that made me reconsider whether feminism ''fit'' my person.My pre-college personal experiences and early graduate school research experiences should have created the ''perfect storm'' that would send me off to seek shelter in feminism and community psychology. During my early adult years, I was frequently reminded that to be successful I needed to catch a man and then do what was necessary to keep him. My early attempts to break free of that model, and an abusive relationship, resulted in punishments from the courts and other systems that should have been protecting me (for details, see Levin, 2008). Many of the inequities I experienced as a young adult were gender and class based. Although I found it easy to embrace community psychology and its mission, I have struggled over the years with adopting a feminist identity and internalizing feminism.In this article, I will present some of my own history and experiences to demonstrate how gender and class affected my career path as a community psychologist. The paper will show how the internalization of combined gender/class roles influenced my choices, behaviors, and expectations, which subsequently limited my ach...

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Section: Implications For Community Psychologymentioning

confidence: 97%

Adopting a feminist perspective is not a linear process

Wolfe¹

2011

Journal Community Psychology

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“…In the early 1970s, just before beginning graduate school, I had joined a consciousness-raising (CR) group partly because I had just moved to New York City and wanted friends (Mulvey, Gridley, & Gawith, 2001). Participating in the group was an exhilarating, life-changing experience for me as it was for many women in other CR groups (Collins, 2009;Shreve, 1989).…”

Section: Consciousness-raising and Community Psychology Convergementioning

confidence: 97%

Mentors, Muses, and mutuality: honoring barbara snell dohrenwend

Mulvey

2011

Journal Community Psychology

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I describe feminist community psychology principles that have the potential to expand and enrich mentoring and that honor Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, a leader who contributed to the research, theory, and profession of community psychology. I reflect on the affect that Barbara Dohrenwend had on life and on the development of feminist community psychology. Examples of peer mentoring between Barbara Dohrenwend's research assistant, John L. Martin, and me are used to illustrate radiating effects of mentoring and interrelationships among forms of mentoring. Feminist community psychology principles discussed in relation to mentoring include mutuality, the power of contexts, and the importance of recognizing and affirming stigmatized and oppressed aspects of identities. The concepts of “muse” (Sullivan, 1996), “public homeplaces,” and “developmental leadership” (Belenky, Bond, & Weistein, 1997) are used to illustrate qualities of feminist community psychology mentoring. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…In the spirit of values transparency, I note that I resonate strongly with Prilleltensky's perspective, but also believe strongly in religious diversity and often find myself caught between these sets of values, since some forms of religion do not promote wellness (Pargament, 2002) or perpetuate inequality and injustice. Other community psychologists have discussed similar tensions between religion and community psychology values (Mulvey, Gridley, & Gawith, 2001;Walsh-Bowers, 2000). Perhaps the time is ripe for more systematic integration of a value-based community psychology perspective to help guide religious research and action.…”

Section: Community Psychology Values and Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A community psychology perspective on religion and religious settings.

Todd¹

2017

APA Handbook of Community Psychology: Theoretical Foundations, Core Concepts, and Emerging Challenges.

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Convent girls, feminism, and community psychology

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Adopting a feminist perspective is not a linear process

Adopting a feminist perspective is not a linear process

Mentors, Muses, and mutuality: honoring barbara snell dohrenwend

A community psychology perspective on religion and religious settings.

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