Seldom seen, rarely heard: women's place in psychology

Abstract

Prologue: re-viewing psychology re-placing women - an end looking for a means, Janis S. Bohan. Part 1 Through a feminist prism - women's place in psychology: psychology constructs the female, or the fantasy life of the male psychologist (with some attention to the fantasies of his friends the male biologist and the male anthropologist), Naomi Weisstein functionalism, Darwinism and the psychology of women - a study in social myth, Stephanie A. Shields bias in psychology, Carolyn Wood Sherif through the looking glass - no wonderland yet! (the reciprocal relationship between methodology and models of reality, Rhoda Kesler Unger the devaluation of women's competence, Bernice Lott. Part 2 Re-viewing psychology - a constructionist perspective: the measurement of masculinity and femininity - engendering categorical realities, J.G. Morawski the meaning of difference - gender theory, postmodernism and psychology, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek psychology reconstructs the female, 1968-1988, Mary Crawford and J. Marecek. Part 3 Re-constructing psychology, re-placing women: metatheoretical dilemmas in the psychology of gender, Michele Andrisin Wittig integrating the feminist critique and the crisis in social psychology - another look at research methods, Barbara Strudler Wallston and Kathleen E. Grady placing women in the history of psychology - the first American women psychologist, Laurel Furumoto and Elizabeth Scarborough family change and gender differences - implications for theory and practice, R.T. Hare-Mustin. Part 4 Women-inclusive psychology - new answers, new questions: doing gender, Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman the psychology of women and conservatism - rediscovering social change, Arnold S. Kahn and Janice D. Yoder feminism, psychology and the paradox of power, Celia Kitzinger differing with deconstruction - a feminist critique, Erica Burman.