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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806931703321

Autore

Gergen Mary M

Titolo

Feminist reconstructions in psychology : narrative, gender, and performance / / Mary Gergen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage, c2001

ISBN

1-322-41314-2

1-4522-2048-4

1-4522-2199-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 229 p.) : ill

Disciplina

150/.82

Soggetti

Feminist psychology

Women - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Straight Talk: An Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology; Chapter 2 - Life Stories: Pieces of a Dream; Chapter 3 - Gendered Narratives: Bodies under Construction; Chapter 4 - Talking about Menopause: A Dialogue; Chapter 5 - Social Ghosts: Opening Inquiry on Imaginal Relationships; Chapter 6 - Gaze and the Naked Maja: Si(gh)tes for Controversy; Part II - Performative Psychology: Whys and Whereabouts; Chapter 7 - Woman as Spectacle, or Facing off: Cavorting With Carn-ival Knowledge

Chapter 8 - Against Mod Mascu-linity and Post-Mod Macho: A Feminist End-GamePart III -  A Closing: Invitations to Commence; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws from the central tenets of postmodern inquiry, as played out in the positive framework of social constructionism. Emphasized are reflexivity, the social basis of reality making, the breakdown of traditional narrative forms, the loss of objectivity as a scientific standard, and the possibilities for new forms of doing research.