Book Review: Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

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Extracted from text ... 388 Title: Complicating categories: Gender, class, race and ethnicity. Editors: Eileen Boris and Ang?lique Janssens Year: 1999. Publisher: University of Cambridge Press. ISBN: 0-521-78641-X (paperback, 169 pages) Psychology in South Africa, in general, has steered clear of complicating its endeavours with conceptualising the sociological or ideological implications of issues such as race, gender, class or ethnicity (de la Rey & Kottler, 1999; Macleod, 2004; Stevens, 2002). And complicated they are, as indicated in the title and contents of the book under review. That psychology cannot ignore any one of these categories, let alone their complexities, is increasingly recognised, as ..