Burman, Erica,

Challenging women : psychology's exclusions, feminist possibilities / Erica Burman [and others]. - viii, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.

List of authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Contexts, contests and interventions -- Women, food and fat: Too many cooks in the kitchen? -- Constructing femininity: Models of child sexual abuse and the production of 'woman' -- In a bad humour. with psychology -- Heavy periods: The process of collusion and compromise in research -- Black parent governors: A hidden agenda -- Keeping mum: The paradoxes of gendered power relations in interviewing -- Gendered 'care' and the structuring of group relations: Child-professional-parent-researcher -- 'Fit to parent'? Developmental psychology and 'non-traditional' families -- Power in feminist organisations -- Endnote: Psychology's exclusions, feminist possibilities? -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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Women--Psychology.
Feminist psychology

HQ1206. / C397 1996

305.42