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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.
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Contents:
The emergence of feminist postmodern psychology --
Life stories : pieces of a dream --
Gendered narratives : bodies under construction --
Talking about menopause : a dialogue --
Social ghosts : opening inquiry on imaginal relationships --
Gaze and the Naked Maja : si(gh)tes for controversy --
Woman as spectacle, or facing off : cavorting with carn-ival knowledge --
Against mod mascu-linity and post-mod macho : a feminist end-game.
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Mary Gergen.
Abstract:
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.
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"The bookis seriously provocative. It challenges all psychologists to be feminist and experimentalin their research. It is worth reading because of what we might find out if wewere." * Contemporary Psychology *Read more...
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