Gender of Psychology

Description

Unique with its predominately South African context, this examination draws on local experiences and studies to present a critical gender analysis of the discipline and practice of psychology in marginalized parts of the world. A critical reflection on how psychology frequently reinforces oppressive practices with respect to gender, sex, and sexuality as well as a look to professional areas of psychology and their application in terms of gender differences are included. Students of psychology and gender studies are offered a wealth of international critical theory complimented by material from communities not usually represented in psychology textbooks. Contents Foreword • Cheryl de la Rey Preface .........................................................................................................................xTamara Shefer, Floretta Boonzaier & Peace Kiguwa About the authors Abbreviations and acronyms Section 1: (Re)production of knowledge in psychology 1 Gendered research • Floretta Boonzaier & Tamara Shefer 2 Narratives of gender and identity constructs • Peace Kiguwa 3 The possibility of a refl exive gaze: The relevance of feminist debates on reflexivity, representation and situated knowledges for psychology • Ingrid Palmary 4 Psychoanalysis, sexual difference and the castration problematic • Derek Hook 5 Lacan, the meaning of the phallus, and the ‘sexed’ subject • Derek Hook 6 Women as a minority group • Gillian Finchilescu Section 2: De/re-constructing psychological knowledge about gender 7 Sexualities • Tamara Shefer & Cheryl Potgieter 8 Early reproduction and gendered assumptions about adolescence and adolescent (hetero)sexuality • Catriona Macleod 9 A gendered analysis of woman abuse • Floretta Boonzaier 10 Analysing a text on the prevailing paradigm of ‘family’ in the ‘psy’ professions • Vivienne Bozalek 11 Men and masculinities: Psychology and politics • Kopano Ratele 12 Motherhood • Lou-Marié Kruger 13 ‘Going places’: Black women negotiating race and gender in post-apartheid South Africa • Carol Long & Estelle Zietkiewicz Section 3: Gendered practice and profession 14 Pathological wombs and raging hormones: Psychology, reproduction and the female body • Rachelle Chadwick 15 Western psychiatry and gender identity disorder (GID): A critical perspective • Estian Smit 16 Becoming a psychologist: Professionalism, feminism, activism • Jane Callaghan References Index