Deconstructing Feminist Psychology

Conceptualizing cultural and gendered identities in psychological therapies

“…What is noteworthy about this literature is its characteristic failure to distinguish the particular experiences and positions of minoritized women. This is perhaps unsurprising, since this body of work, as a key expression of second wave feminism, also partook of its tendency to conceptualize gender as a constant, generalizable experience and social position (see Burman 1998;Seu and Heenan 1998). Culture and class, if acknowledged, were usually portrayed as additive categories of identification, rather than entering into the definition and experience of gender (together with sexuality, age, dis/ability, etc.).…”

International Community Psychology

“…From Manchester, Mark Burton manages the Community Psychology U.K. website, unofficial, but used as a gateway to CP in the United Kingdom (www.compsy.org.uk); and Paul Duckett and Rebecca Lawthom manage the national website drawing together learning and teaching strategies and materials in CP in higher education (http://cphe.org.uk/). The strong CP group at MMU links closely with the Discourse Unit, a centre for critical and feminist psychology (Burman, 1998;Parker, 2005;Parker & Spears, 1996). It is from this base that the Annual Review of Critical Psychology is published, and that networking and campaigning organisations, including the Hearing Voices Network, Psychology, Politics and Resistance, and the Paranoia Network have been supported (Parker, 1994).…”

Fictioning authority: Writing experience in feminist teaching and learning

“…The questions of audience, of reception, of task and setting as well as institutional culture, all gure in the presence and absence of representations of experience in women's studies work. I also want to suggest that the political and interpretative issues posed for me as a feminist teacher are not very different from those encountered within therapeutic contexts (see Aitken and Burman 1999;Burman 1998). Notwithstanding the feminist tenet that the personal is political, and the current focus in feminist research on issues of re exivity (e.g.…”