Deconstructing Feminist Psychology

Burman, Erica

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“…Indeed feminists, especially black and lesbian feminists, have pointed out how such moves threaten to reinstate the normalisations and corresponding marginalisations of the traditional liberal bourgeois subject, albeit now cross-dressed in more feminine/feminised garb (c.f. Carby, 1982;Amos & Parmar, 1984; see also Burman, 1998a). This paper draws on those debates to focus specifically on emotions.…”

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Emotions and reflexivity in feminised education action research

Burman

2006

Educational Action Research

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The paper addresses contemporary relations between emotions, gender and feminist action research. Starting from analysis of the increasing emotionalisation of everyday life, it explores the quasi-feminist-or what the author calls 'feminised'-forms of incitement to reflexive confession that are increasingly gaining favour within professional and higher educational contexts and draws on literatures and sets of debates that inform education action research, including: childhood and governmentality; feminist research; and international development critiques. The author proposes that reflexivity as an educational and research practice has come to stand in for, and thereby limits, the contemporary focus on 'participation' to reduce its radical collaborative and action agenda and instead incite researchers to work on ourselves, and only on ourselves. The paper warns against underestimating the speed and flexibility by which neo-liberalism absorbs and co-opts creative strategies-such as reflexivity-for its subversion, and returns them to old-style individualism.In this paper I attempt to characterise contemporary entanglements of emotions, gender and feminist action research, arguing that they belie contrary political tendencies. My principal target is the quasi-feminist-or what I will call 'feminised'-forms of incitement to reflexive confession that are increasingly gaining favour within professional and higher educational contexts. My primary address here is at a rather 'in-house' and mundane level of institutional activity, but, as I will show, the political stakes are higher, wider and deeper. Hence I am taking a rather broad understanding of action research that is neither purely action oriented nor methodological. Indeed it is a feature of 'reflexive' approaches to research that the topic vs. process and theory vs. practice polarities are seen as fluid and interconnected. It is-in part-through such an attention to questions of process and participation in research that emotions

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Emotions and reflexivity in feminised education action research

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2006

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“…Deconstructing Feminist Psychology is the ninth in an ongoing series put out by a mainstream publisher (Sage). The title of the series is Gender and Psychology: Feminist and Critical Perspectives (Burman, 1998). This book series is not unique; along the same lines, APA Books features a Psychology of Women Series that has published 10 books, e.g., Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of Media (Cole & Daniel, 2005) and Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Context (Silverstein & Goodrich, 2003).…”

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The Girl-Crisis Movement: Evaluating the Foundation

Farady

2010

Review of General Psychology

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Psychologists played a major role behind the widely publicized and popular idea of a crisis among girls. In this paper, several topics basic to the girl-crisis movement are examined. Suggested by the works of psychologists Carol Gilligan and Mary Pipher, the topics are voice, self-esteem, and psychology's role in harming girls. Expected sex differences in voice and self-esteem were not found. The girl-crisis notion that contemporary psychology has colluded in harming girls is at odds with the arc of the profession. The wide divergence between the basic claims of the girl-crisis movement and these findings are discussed. Further critique is recommended.

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“…From the articulation between political activism and academic work, in the process of reacting "against a male-dominant pseudo order" (Neves & Nogueira, 2003), psychological science has assumed significantly, although not consensually (Burman, 1998;Harding, 1990), a position of claiming equality between sexes in the theoretical productions and in psychological interventions. As the Portuguese researchers Sofia Neves and Conceição Nogueira (2003, p. 45) state, "in seeking guiding principles in feminist assumptions, feminist Psychology positions itself unequivocally in an actively anti-sexist line of action, sustaining that men and women and their concerns and experiences are equally valuable and important in the eyes of scientific knowledge".…”

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“…As the Portuguese researchers Sofia Neves and Conceição Nogueira (2003, p. 45) state, "in seeking guiding principles in feminist assumptions, feminist Psychology positions itself unequivocally in an actively anti-sexist line of action, sustaining that men and women and their concerns and experiences are equally valuable and important in the eyes of scientific knowledge". In this sense, feminist Psychology -little known in the Brazilian and Latin American context, but active in the United States (Chrisler & McHugh, 2011), in Canada (Austin, Rutherford, & Pyke, 2006) and in some European countries, such as Portugal (Neves & Nogueira, 2003;Saavedra, 2010), Spain (Ubach, 2008) and England (Burman, 1990(Burman, , 1998Stainton Rogers & Stainton Rogers, 2001) is positioned unequivocally in an actively anti-sexist line of action, sustaining that in the eyes of science both the experiences, and the values, concerns and experiences of men and women should be equal. Thus, feminist psychology not only offers understanding of the "feminine condition," but also of other classification systems that generate oppression such as race, sexual orientation, class among others (Neves & Nogueira, 2003).…”

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Gender and feminisms: theoretical-epistemological considerations and methodological impacts

2013

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The present article analyzes how the relationship between theory and politics takes place in the Brazilian feminist field and how this articulation gains strength in academia, setting up a critical position that is characteristic as a theoretical and methodological perspective. Among its fundamental axes, there are the theoretical-epistemological and methodological concerns, as it is understood that it is not possible to perform feminist science, except from an engaged, politically committed position. Thus, the concept of gender and its impacts on the theoretical and political fields problematizes and analyzes the methodological implications in this context of scientific research. Such analyses enable the deduction that the feminist debate is not separate from that of the scientific field in general, concerning the statute of science and the ways of generating knowledge, as also presented in the field of Social Psychology.Keywords: gender; feminist theories; epistemology; methodology. RESUMOO presente artigo analisa a forma como a relação entre a teoria e a política tem lugar no campo feminista brasileiro e como essa articulação ganha força na academia, criando uma posição crítica, que é característica de uma perspectiva teórica e metodológica. Entre seus eixos fundamentais, estão as preocupações teórico-epistemológicas e metodológicas, entendido que não é possível realizar a ciência feminista, exceto de uma posição politicamente comprometida. Assim, o conceito de gênero e seus impactos sobre os campos teóricos e políticos problematiza e analisa as implicações metodológicas neste contexto de pesquisa científica. Tais análises permitem a dedução de que o debate feminista não é separado do campo científico em geral, relativo ao estatuto da ciência e das formas de geração de conhecimento, e também presente no campo da Psicologia Social.

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Deconstructing Feminist Psychology

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Emotions and reflexivity in feminised education action research

Emotions and reflexivity in feminised education action research

The Girl-Crisis Movement: Evaluating the Foundation

Gender and feminisms: theoretical-epistemological considerations and methodological impacts

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