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Standpoints and Differences
Essays in the Practice of Feminist Psychology

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August 1998 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This volume investigates a key area of theoretical interest within contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theory, paying particular attention to feminist psychology.

Recognizing that feminist researchers have a long-standing commitment to conducting research from feminist standpoints, the contributors consider the tensions between this and the poststructuralist argument that research and emancipatory politics can flow from personal and political differences. The volume considers questions and developments on `giving voice', and explores arguments and theoretical positions concerning power and subjectivity, paying attention to how these inform research practice.

Karen Henwood, Christine Griffin and Ann Phoenix
Introduction
 
PART ONE: MODES OF ARGUING/THEORETICAL POSITIONING
Rosalind Gill
Dialogues and Differences
Writing, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Representation

 
Stevi Jackson
Telling Stories
Memory, Narrative and Experience in Feminist Research and Theory

 
 
PART TWO: DIVERSE POSITIONINGS
Corinne Squire
Women and Men Talk about Aggression
An Analysis of Narrative Genre

 
Lyn Mikel Brown
Voice and Ventriloquation in Girls' Development
Harriet Marshall, Anne Woollett and Neelam Dosanjh
Researching Marginalized Standpoints
Some Tensions around Plural Standpoints and Diverse `Experiences'

 
Bruna Seu
Shameful Women
Accounts of Withdrawal and Silence

 
Margaret Wetherell and Nigel Edley
Gender Practices
Steps in the Analysis of Men and Masculinities

 
Sara Willott
An Outsider Within
A Feminist Doing Research with Men

 
 
PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND PRACTICE
Janneke van Mens-Verhulst
Beyond Innocence
Feminist Mental Health Care and the Postmodernist Perspective

 
Erica Burman
The Child, the Woman and the Cyborg
(Im)possibilities of Feminist Developmental Psychology

 

`An impressive statement from British feminist-mainly discursive social-psychology....The introduction....is a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the importance and limitations of the `axis between feminism and poststructuralism'. It maps the issues in a theoretical sophisticated way which should put paid to any lingering notions that psychologists can't work with critical theory' -Feminist Theory

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