Relation between Government and the Status of Women

Patrick, Catharine

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“…Patrick (61) examined the laws relative to the rights of women as individuals in the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, and Russia in 1920-1939 and compared them with the laws of the Weimar Republic. A score of +1 WAS given if the law supported the independence of woman as an individual and a score of 0 if it did not.…”

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Chapter IV: Mental Health in Community Life

Ojemann¹

1949

Review of Educational Research

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THE THREE-YEAR period under review witnessed the publication of a number of studies of the effects on mental health of various aspects of the war. Many of these studies were begun during the war but could not be completed until the cessation of hostilities. The period also saw the publication of a number of studies bearing on the problem of building a peaceful society in an atomic age. Effect of Forms of Government and Political SystemsIt is interesting to note that the three-year period which included the years just before and after the close of the war produced some studies of the effect of administrative changes on mental health in which observations were made before and after the changes were introduced. These studies were made in Japanese relocation centers. In the current three-year cycle practically all of the studies are of governmental procedures already in operation.Irving (42) in a study of the psychological aspects of the social credit movement in Alberta showed how the existing distrust of Eastern Canada and its institutions, the work of the United Farmers group, and the hope of financial rehabilitation when taken together had a widespread appeal. Furthermore the "positive comradeship" which members received seemed to supply a felt need. When these forces were welded by a powerful personality a strong motivation was built up.A second analytical study of the effect of governmental procedures is that by MacCrone (49). He obtained data from a dominated African group thru biographical documents and direct group discussions. The resistive attitude which he found seemed to be related both to the knowledge by the group that they once had been a free people and that natives in adjoining British protectorates were not so severely discriminated against and to the pride they had in their own cultural and tribal organization.Patrick (61) examined the laws relative to the rights of women as individuals in the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, and Russia in 1920-1939 and compared them with the laws of the Weimar Republic. A score of +1 WAS given if the law supported the independence of woman as an individual and a score of 0 if it did not. Totals for each country for laws affecting both married and single women and for those affecting only married women were obtained. The results indicated that altho there were some similarities in all of the governments, under the Weimar Republic married women had relatively few rights. The investigator sug-395 at UQ Library on June 22, 2015 http://rer.aera.net Downloaded from

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Chapter IV: Mental Health in Community Life

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1949

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“…4 4 In addition, one other participant in the joint NCWP/SPSSI committee, Catherine Patrick, published a survey paper in the SPSSI journal expanding upon Murphy and Seward's alignment of fascism with repression of women and communism/socialism with increased legal rights of women (Patrick, 1946). No other publications of the joint committee appear in SPSSI's journal ( Journal of Social Issues ), suggesting that it might not have continued in the postwar years. …”

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Unfamiliar Feminisms: Revisiting the National Council of Women Psychologists

Johnson

Johnston

2010

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Second-generation women psychologists lived and worked between the two waves of organized feminist protest in the United States. This period is usually described as a time when feminist activity was suppressed or put on hold, and women psychologists from this period are often depicted as being collectively nonfeminist in orientation. In particular, historical accounts of the National Council of Women Psychologists (NCWP), formed in 1942, call the strength and value of members' feminist activism into question. Recent scholarship on interwave feminist activity in the United States has offered a new way of looking at the NCWP, and exploring feminist historiography and using archival data, we suggest that women of the NCWP used a variety of strategies appropriate to their zeitgeist to improve the standing of women in psychology. Some of these strategies do not map well onto post-1960s' definitions of feminist activism and so their effectiveness may not be easily recognized. We argue that the NCWP provided a platform for second-generation women psychologists to document gender-based disparities, debate strategies, and raise awareness of women's contributions to the field. In doing so, the NCWP prepared the ground for second-wave feminist organizing of the 1970s. We suggest that a close look at the struggles and strategies of the NCWP offers important lessons for contemporary feminist organizations in psychology.

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Relation between Government and the Status of Women

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Chapter IV: Mental Health in Community Life

Chapter IV: Mental Health in Community Life

Unfamiliar Feminisms: Revisiting the National Council of Women Psychologists

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