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Erica Burman

Challenging Women : Psychology's exclusions, feminist possibilities / Erica Burman ... [et al.]. - viii, 210 p. ;

Includes Index

Introduction: Contexts, contests and interventions / Erica Burman -- 1. Women, food and fat: Too many cooks in the kitchen? / Colleen Heenan -- 2. Constructing femininity: Models of child sexual abuse and the production of 'woman' / Sam Warner -- 3. In a bad humour... with psychology / Brenda Goldberg -- 4. Heavy periods: The process of collusion and compromise in research / Jane Marshall -- 5. Black parent governors: A hidden agenda / Robina Ullah -- 6. Keeping mum: The paradoxes of gendered power relations in interviewing / Karen Taylor -- 7. Gendered 'care' and the structuring of group relations: Child-professional-parent-researcher / Deborah Marks -- 8. 'Fit to parent'? Developmental psychology and 'non-traditional' families / Pam Alldred -- 9. Power in feminist organisations / Catherine Bewley -- Endnote: Psychology's exclusions, feminist possibilities?

ISBN: 0335195105 (pb) 9780335195107 (pb)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women
Feminist psychology.

Dewey Class. No.: HQ1206 .C397 1995 / 1