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Chapter 16 - Doing Psychology in Unsettled Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2022

By
Jeanne Marecek
Edited by
Jamila Bookwala  and
Nicky J. Newton
Jamila Bookwala
Affiliation:
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Nicky J. Newton
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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Summary

I entered the discipline of psychology in an era of cultural, social, and political upheavals – the dramatic uptake of feminism, campus opposition to US involvement in Vietnam, and mobilization for racial justice and civil rights. Women’s presence was not welcome in the academy. As a junior professor, I studied gendered power relations and women’s experiences of inequitable treatment – issues curtly dismissed by mainstream psychologists as unscientific. Colleagues in Feminist Studies introduced me to the 1980s “turn to language” and to critical science studies. Collaborative endeavors in Sweden, the UK, Norway, and Sri Lanka led me to question the quantitative imperative of US psychology and the presumption that Western-centric ways of being were universal. With the editorial team of Feminism & Psychology and as coauthor of Making a Difference, Gender and Culture in Psychology, and Doing Interview-Based Qualitative Research, I worked with colleagues to put forward alternate ways of doing psychology.

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Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology , pp. 202 - 215
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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