Charting a New Course for Feminist Psychology.

Cover -- Charting a New Course for Feminist Psychology -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Feminist Theory and Pedagogy -- Chapter 1 Gendered Subjects in Psychology: Satirical and Dialectic Perspectives -- SEX AND GENDER -- THE DEBATE ABOUT SEX DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE FEMINIST COMMUNITY -- THE MINIMALIST AND MAXIMALIST POSITIONS -- USING THE MASTER'S TOOLS: SATIRICAL EMPIRICISM -- CRITICISMS OF THE MINIMALIST AND MAXIMALIST APPROACHES: RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT -- ESSENTIALIZING AND UNIVERSALIZING TENDENCIES -- CHALLENGING DICHOTOMIES -- AVOIDING EITHER/OR CHOICES: DEVELOPING DOUBLE VISIONS -- DIALECTICAL PERSPECTIVES, IRONY, AND SATIRICAL EMPIRICISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Deconstructing Difference: Conceptualizing Feminist Research from Within the Postmodern -- STUDYING GENDER FROM A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE -- WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM AND HOW IS IT RELEVANT TO FEMINIST RESEARCH? -- HOW IS POSTMODERNISM DIFFERENT FROM FEMINIST EMPIRICISM AND STANDPOINT THEORIES? -- LANGUAGE, REALITY, POWER, AND KNOWLEDGE -- DECONSTRUCTION: A STRATEGY FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH -- BUT IF THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE FOUNDATIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE, ISN'T EVERYTHING RELATIVE IN A POSTMODERN WORLD? -- WHAT IS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH?4 -- IN WHAT WAY IS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH CONGRUENT WITH FEMINIST GOALS OF RESEARCH? -- SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH MORE CONGRUENT WITH POSTMODERN THEORY -- WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 The Faces of Feminist Pedagogy: A Survey of Psychologists and Their Students -- FEMINIST PEDAGOGY CONCEPTS -- Integrating/Balancing Dichotomies -- Role of Power and Authority -- Difference/Diversity -- Epistemological Diversity -- Social Action -- THE SURVEY -- PROCEDURES -- MEASURES -- Theoretical Orientation -- Feminist Teaching Practices -- Feminist Identification -- RESULTS.

Quantitative Results -- Analysis of Open-Ended Questions -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Women of Color and Feminist Psychology: Moving from Criticism and Critique to Integration and Application -- WHAT IS FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGY? -- WHAT ARE SOME CRITICISMS OF FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGY REGARDING WOMEN OF COLOR? -- Criticism 1: "Woman" as Universal -- Criticism 2: Gender as Primary -- Criticism 3: Lack of Representation in Research -- Criticism 4: Limited Theoretical Development -- HOW HAS FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGY RESPONDED TO CRITICISMS OF ETHNOCENTRISM? -- WHERE ARE WE NOW AS FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGISTS? -- Cultural Issue: Communal Worldview -- Cultural Issue: Cultural Norms -- Cultural Issue: Differences in Expressive Styles -- Cultural Issue: Reactions to Racism -- Cultural Issue: Avoidance of Stereotypes and Labeling -- WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? -- Recommendation 1: Expect Variability and Complexity -- Recommendation 2: Awareness of Culture on a Personal Level -- Recommendation 3: Woman of Color Feminism within a Multidimensional Framework -- Centrality -- Salience -- Regard -- Ideology -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II Psychological Development -- Chapter 5 Deconstructing Attachment Theory: Naturalizing the Politics of Motherhood -- ROMANTICIZING MOTHERHOOD -- Cultural Feminism as Romance -- PROMOTING MATERNITY: JOHN BOWLBY IN CONTEXT -- IDEOLOGY CONFIGURED AS SCIENCE -- ANIMAL MODELS CONSTRUE HUMAN MOTHERING -- Harry Harlow in Context -- HISTORICIZING ATTACHMENT THEORY -- The Essentialist Ideology of Maternalism: Pre-World War II -- During World War II -- After World War II -- Enter Bowlby -- THE CURRENT CLIMATE -- Legal Implications of the Attachment Paradigm -- Racialization of Good Mothering -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 6 Dimensions of Silencing and Resistance in Adolescent Girls: Development of a Narrative Method for Research and Prevention -- SILENCING AND THE ADOLESCENT TRANSITION FOR GIRLS -- AN INTEGRATIVE DEFINITION OF THE SILENCING PROCESS -- RESEARCH ON SILENCING AND RESISTANCE -- THE DUKE PROJECT ON SILENCING AND RESISTANCE DURING ADOLESCENCE -- Number and Frequency of Study Themes -- Description of Silencing Themes -- Description of Resistance Themes -- Description of Genuine Self-Expression (Theme 14) -- Narrative Illustrations with Thematic Coding Explanations -- DISCUSSION -- Future Research Using Our Photo-Narrative Approach to Study Silencing and Resistance -- Charting Multiple Courses for Self-Expression in Adolescent Girls: Future Applications of Our Photo-Narrative Methodology in Psychoeducation and Prevention -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Self-Esteem Inoculation: Protecting Girls from the Effects of Sexism -- THE SELF -- COMMON SOURCES OF SELF-ESTEEM -- Peers -- Family -- Education -- GROUP DYNAMICS INFLUENCING SELF-ESTEEM -- Egalitarianism and Self-Complexity -- Ethnic Identity -- Social Comparison -- Education About Discrimination -- Adaptive Attributional Biases -- CHARTING A NEW COURSE FOR GIRLS' AND WOMEN'S SELF-ESTEEM -- Stages of Acquiring a Positive Identity: Nigrescence, Feminist, and Womanist Models -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Women, Whither Goest Thou? To Chart New Courses in Religiousness and Spirituality and to Define Ourselves! -- DEFINITIONS OF RELIGIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY -- DOES SPIRITUALITY REPRESENT A SIXTH FACTOR OF PERSONALITY? -- WHITE RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND RELIGIOSITY AND SPIRITUALITY -- SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY REUNITED -- AGE INFLUENCES ON SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY -- SPIRITUALITY AND SEXUAL ABUSE -- SPIRITUALITY AND CONNECTEDNESS -- BODY IMAGES, INTIMACY, AND SPIRITUALITY.

BODY IMAGE, SPIRITUAL EMBODIMENT, AND TRANSCENDENCE -- SPIRITUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN -- GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RELIGIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY -- SPIRITUALITY AND LEADERSHIP -- WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY -- CHARTING A NEW COURSE IN RELIGIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY -- REFRAMING RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL ENVIRONMENTS -- WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY, YESTERDAY AND TODAY -- REFERENCES -- Part III Women's Health -- Chapter 9 HIV among Elderly Women: Ignored and Overlooked by Health Care Providers and Public Policy Makers -- DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS -- THE PREVALENCE OF HIV AMONG OLDER ADULTS -- RISK FACTORS FOR OLDER WOMEN -- Vaginal Changes -- Limited Condom Use -- Ignorance of Partners' High-Risk Behaviors -- Sexual Assault -- Caregiving for Infected Children -- Lack of Knowledge -- Misdiagnosis of HIV-Induced Dementia -- ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES -- Failure to Recognize a Partner's High-Risk Behavior -- Denial of Older Women's High-Risk Behavior -- Difficulties in Dealing with Sexual Assault -- AN EMPIRICALLY BASED PILOT STUDY -- LIMITATIONS IN RESOURCES AND FUNDING -- Medicare and Medicaid -- Formidable Costs -- Quality of Care -- Existing Outreach -- GOALS FOR THE FUTURE -- Calls for Funding -- Education -- Social Mores and Support -- Virtually Unexplored Areas -- OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Black Battered Women: New Directions for Research and Black Feminist Theory -- RACIAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL PARTNER VIOLENCE -- NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH -- Definitional and Measurement Problems -- Data Collection, Analyses, and Interpretation of Results -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- History of Patriarchy -- The Intersection of Sexism, Racism, and Classism -- The Range of Violence -- Imbalance of Gender Roles -- Structure of Social Institutions -- Help-Seeking Behavior -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 11 Hormone Hostages: The Cultural Legacy of PMS as a Legal Defense -- THE TRIALS -- Media Coverage of PMS -- A STEREOTYPE EMERGES -- Is There Scientific Evidence to Support the Stereotype? -- THE AFTERMATH -- Can the Stereotype Be Changed? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part IV Women's Mental Health and Feminist Therapy -- Chapter 12 Prevention of Eating Disorders: Problems, Pitfalls, and Feminist Possibilities -- EATING DISORDERS: A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM -- Initial Efforts to Prevent Eating Disorders -- PROBLEMS -- Problem #1: We Don't Know What Prevention Is -- Problem #2: We Don't Know What to Prevent -- Problem #3: We Lack Knowledge of Prevention Techniques -- Problem #4: Eating Disorders Prevention as a Subversive Act -- PITFALLS -- Pitfall #1: Lack of Clarity Regarding Prevention Goals and -- Pitfall #2: Teaching "Eating Disorders 101" -- Pitfall #3: Decontextualizing Eating Disorders and Related Problems -- Pitfall #4: Failure to Evaluate Outcomes -- FEMINIST POSSIBILITIES -- Promoting Size Acceptance: The EDAP Puppet Program for Elementary School Children -- Knowledge = Power: Media Education as Prevention -- Feminist Relational Approaches -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 Body Image Disturbance and Disordered Eating in African-American and Latina Women -- THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF ETIOLOGY -- Developmental Theories -- Psychodynamic Theories -- Biological Theories -- Sociocultural Theories -- Other Theories -- WHAT ABOUT AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND LATINA WOMEN? -- Themes Identified in the Body Image/Eating Disorder Literature Pertaining to Women of Color -- Incorporating a Qualitative Perspective -- Participants and Procedure -- CULTURAL BODY IDEALS IN WOMEN OF COLOR AND EUROPEAN-AMERICAN WOMEN -- European-American Cultural Body Ideals -- African-American and Latina Cultural Body Ideals.

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