Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue
- 2 Categories and social categorization
- 3 Laying the foundation
- 4 Theories of gender in psychology: an overview
- 5 A turn to interpretation
- 6 Doing interpretative psychological research
- 7 Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture
- 8 Gender and culture in children's identity development
- 9 Identity and inequality in heterosexual couples
- 10 Coercion, violence, and consent in heterosexual encounters
- 11 Women's eating problems and the cultural meanings of body size
- 12 Psychological suffering in social and cultural context
- 13 Feminism and gender in psychotherapy
- 14 Comparing women and men: a retrospective on sex-difference research
- 15 Psychology's place in society, and society's place in psychology
- References
- Index
1 - Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue
- 2 Categories and social categorization
- 3 Laying the foundation
- 4 Theories of gender in psychology: an overview
- 5 A turn to interpretation
- 6 Doing interpretative psychological research
- 7 Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture
- 8 Gender and culture in children's identity development
- 9 Identity and inequality in heterosexual couples
- 10 Coercion, violence, and consent in heterosexual encounters
- 11 Women's eating problems and the cultural meanings of body size
- 12 Psychological suffering in social and cultural context
- 13 Feminism and gender in psychotherapy
- 14 Comparing women and men: a retrospective on sex-difference research
- 15 Psychology's place in society, and society's place in psychology
- References
- Index
Summary
Gender, the equality of the sexes, and societal inequalities more generally have been intensely debated and studied by social scientists in the last several decades. In the wake of the debates, new fields of study and new ways of thinking about old issues have emerged. This is as true of psychology as of other social sciences. When psychologists take contemporary scholarship on gender, ethnic groups, sexuality, and other social categorizations into account, foundational assumptions and practices in psychology begin to shift.
To begin with, new and different psychological questions emerge and new topics are brought forward. To answer such new questions and address new topics, new research methods have been devised. This, in turn, has caused gender researchers to become attentive to epistemological questions. In this book, we discuss these three innovations associated with gender scholarship: (1) in content, that is, new knowledge about gender and culture; (2) in method, that is, alternate ways of doing research and practice; and (3) in epistemology, that is, new ways of thinking about psychological knowledge. We approach these innovations from several different angles.
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- Gender and Culture in PsychologyTheories and Practices, pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012