scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND GENDER APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Irene Zubkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
And Gender

Over the past 30 years, psychological theory and practice abroad has undergone the most severe criticism and reappraisal than ever before. As an academic discipline, psychology contained distorted facts and pseudoscientific theories about women, supported stereotypical ideas about the abilities and psychological characteristics of women and men. Under the powerful influence of the female movement, feminism, independent areas were identified, which included the psychology of women and men (psychology of women, women's study, men's study, gender studies, feminist psychology) in different volumes and contents.

Global Religious History in Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
Michael Bergunder
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

Abstract “Global religious history” derives its name from the German phrase “globale Religionsgeschichte”. This term articulates an approach that aims to be relevant to the whole field of religious studies, and it encompasses theoretical debates, particularly in the areas of postcolonialism and gender studies. Thus, “Global” embodies, acknowledges, and incorporates all prevalent terms of and the parameters for the global constitution of present-day academia and society. “Religious” means that it concerns religious studies. “History” denotes a genealogical critique as the central research interest. Historicization in that sense is not limited to philological research of sources from the past but also relevant to any research based on data from contemporary anthropological fieldwork or other empirical methods. This approach also aims to provide a pertinent influence on research practice, and seeks to circumvent any artificial segregation of theory and practice.

Intersectionality and its discontents: Intersectionality as traveling theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Salem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Traveling Theory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Phase

‘Intersectionality’ has now become a major feature of feminist scholarly work, despite continued debates surrounding its precise definition. Since the term was coined and the field established in the late 1980s, countless articles, volumes and conferences have grown out of it, heralding a new phase in feminist and gender studies. Over the past few years, however, the growing number of critiques leveled against intersectionality warrants us as feminists to pause and reflect on the trajectory the concept has taken and on the ways in which it has traveled through time and space. Conceptualizing intersectionality as a traveling theory allows for these multiple critiques to be contextualized and addressed. It is argued that the context of the neoliberal academy plays a major role in the ways in which intersectionality has lost much of its critical potential in some of its usages today. It is further suggested that Marxist feminism(s) offers an important means of grounding intersectionality critically and expanding intersectionality’s ability to engage with feminism transnationally.

Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
KRISTINA HAGSTRÖM STÅHL
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Critical Step ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

In the past decade and a half, feminism and gender studies have undergone a process of critical self-scrutiny and re-assessment. Presently, the fields of theatre and performance studies are undertaking a similar project of self-evaluation, as evidenced by recent calls to assess the ‘state of the field’ as well as its future directions. Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harrison suggest in their recent co-edited volume, Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory, that any attempt to envision the future must begin by examining the present, which in turn entails looking to, and reflecting on, the legacies and remains of the past. In her article for this issue of TRI, ‘A Critical Step to the Side: Performing the Loss of the Mother’, Aston does precisely this, asking, ‘in what ways it might be critically productive to come back to the maternal as a subject for feminism’.

Feminist Psychology in North America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Sheese
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender

Feminist psychology as an institutionalized field in North America has a relatively recent history. Its formalization remains geographically uneven and its institutionalization remains a contested endeavor. Women’s liberation movements, anticolonial struggles, and the civil rights movement acted as galvanizing forces in bringing feminism formally into psychology, transforming not only its sexist institutional practices but also its theories, and radically challenging its epistemological and methodological commitments and constraints. Since the late 1960s, feminists in psychology have produced radically new understandings of sex and gender, have recovered women’s history in psychology, have developed new historiographical methods, have engaged with and developed innovative approaches to theory and research, and have rendered previously invisibilized issues and experiences central to women’s lives intelligible and worthy of scholarly inquiry. Heated debates about the potential of feminist psychology to bring about radical social and political change are ongoing as feminists in the discipline negotiate threats and dilemmas related to collusion, colonialism, and co-optation in the face of ongoing commitments to positivism and individualism in psychology and as the theory and practice of psychology remains embedded within broader structures of neoliberalism and global capitalism.

scholarly journals Identity and Intervention: Disciplinarity as Transdisciplinarity in Gender Studies

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 183-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Pulkkinen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

Within the past 40 years, feminist studies/women’s studies/gender studies/studies in gender and sexuality has effectively grown into a globally practised academic discipline while simultaneously resisting the notion of disciplinarity and strongly advocating multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity. In this article, I argue that gaining identity through refusing an identity can be viewed as being a constitutive paradox of gender studies. Through exploring gender studies as a transdisciplinary intellectual discipline, which came into existence in very particular multidisciplinary historical conditions of the feminist movement, I suggest that transdisciplinarity within gender studies takes on a meaning which results in a radical problematization of the academic goal of ‘knowledge production’. Instead of such ‘knowledge production’, transdisciplinarity in gender studies promotes intervention which reaches beyond the concepts of accountability, innovation and corporate management. I argue that Jacques Derrida’s promotion of the Collège International de Philosophie in 1982 in its particular relationship to the tradition of philosophy provides a parallel example of such an attitude. Adding to Joan Scott’s and Clare Hemmings’s insights on gender studies in terms of critique and transformation, I argue that transdisciplinarity as practice of ‘intervention’ is crucial for the construction of gender studies disciplinary identity, based upon apparent non-identity.

Do Research Reports in Mainstream Feminist Psychology Journals Reflect Feminist Values?

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Report Writing ◽  
Research Relationship ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Participation In Research

Core values in feminist approaches to psychological research include attention to the relationship between scientists and citizens. But traditional methodological norms dictate that investigators restrict citizens' participation in research and prescribe an impersonal, decontextualized writing style in journal reports. Content analysis of 228 research articles in two journals associated with feminist psychology—the Psychology of Women Quarterly and Sex Roles, spanning the journals' first decade—showed that authors typically provided minimal or no information about such relationship dimensions as level of participation, informed consent, and feedback. The depersonalized writing style generally employed gives the impression that some feminist psychologists have adopted androcentric standards for the research relationship. Developing appropriate models for both research methods and report writing is essential for feminist researchers to resolve the apparent contradiction between ideals and behavior. But certain institutional obstacles need to be overcome for the resolution to occur.

False Analogy: Transfer of Theories and Methods in Archaeology (The Case of Serbia)

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Palavestra ◽  
Staša Babić
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the continent tends to be described as a process that saw the even spread of ideas and concepts in their original form. This further implies a uniform, unilinear sequence of paradigms (culture-historical, processual, postprocessual), each with their own internal logic. However, more often than not, these transfers of disciplinary knowledge from one academic community to the other have introduced distortions of the original concepts, designed to meet the demands of the different cultural and intellectual traditions and research agendas. In this article, we explore the foundation of academic archaeology in Serbia and of the pivotal figure in this process – Miloje M. Vasić, educated at German universities and considered to be the first academically trained archaeologist in the country. His adaptations of the German tradition of Classical scholarship applied to the study of the Balkan past have marked the theory and practice of archaeology in the country up to the present. This example indicates that we should seek to explore the ways in which the concepts we apply in our study of the past are articulated in particular local settings if we are to achieve a better understanding among various academic and professional communities of archaeologists across Europe.

2002 Carolyn Sherif Award Address: Gender, Race, and Generation in a Midwest High School: Using Ethnographically Informed Methods in Psychology

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail J. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
And Gender

Abigail Stewart Sherif Award Citation. For your exceptional contributions to feminist psychology, the Society for the Psychology of Women presents to you the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award. Your entire career has been marked by distinction; you have been as prolific in publishing as you have been in mentoring. You have illuminated women's lives, their personalities, their development, and their adaptation to change. You have advanced feminist theory, and your academic leadership has created the opportunity for students to do graduate work in feminist psychology. We honor you and your work with gratitude. In this essay I make two arguments. First, I argue for the value of ethnographically informed methods in psychology in general and particularly for the psychology of women. Second, I argue for the importance of the role of generation in psychology, perhaps particularly in the study of values and social identities. In advancing these arguments, I draw on evidence from an ongoing, ethnographically informed study of the graduates of a Midwestern high school in the mid-1950s and late 1960s. The two generations of graduates have distinctive accounts of their experiences, with the older generation's accounts consistent across gender and race, and the younger generation's accounts inflected by both race and gender. Differences in the form of generational identity in the two cohorts are discussed.

scholarly journals Rochelle Ruthchild. Natalya Pushkareva – Creator of the Russian School of Gender Studies in History and Ethnology

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Rochelle G. Ruthchild
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Scientific Biography ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Identity ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
American Historian ◽  
And Gender

In a brief report by a well-known American historian is analysed the contribution of her Russian colleague Natalya Pushkareva to the creation of a new scientific direction - gender studies in ethnology and in the study of the past. The author substantiates the special role of an individual in the institutionalization of women's and gender studies in Russian historiography, reflects on stages of the scientific biography of Natalya Pushkareva, foundation of a scientific school and her followers, united by common interests and intellectual identity.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-258
Author(s):  
Gavin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Stanley Milgram

The conclusion firstly draws out some broader theses from the preceding chapters. It then provisionally analyses the deployment of science fiction tropes within the body of official psychological literature, whether at a popular or more scholarly level. Although science fiction may be exploited in a very simple way within psychological theory and practice as a popularizing and didactic tool, there are other, more complex and often self-conscious ways that the genre is used. Psychologists as varied as Sandra and Daryl Bem, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, and Steven Pinker, invoke different speculative narratives of the future as a way to legitimate their particular psychological claims. Perhaps surprisingly, psychology can also make use of science fiction motifs to offer cognitive estrangement of the present, be this consciously, in critical feminist psychology, or unwittingly, as in the famed obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram.

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