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Feminist psychology is a form of psychology centered on social structures and gender. Feminist psychology critiques historical psychological research as done from a male perspective with the view that males are the norm. [1] Feminist psychology is oriented on the values and principles of feminism.
Ellyn Kaschak (born June 23, 1943), [1] is an American clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University.She is one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, [2] which she has practiced and taught since 1972. [3]
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
This theory emphasizes the social component of sex differences. It operates around the idea of correspondence inference , which is the tendency to ascribe a person's behavior to her or his disposition or personality and to underestimate the extent to which situational factors elicited the behavior.
Deborah S. Bosley explores this new concept of the "feminist theory of design" [105] by conducting a study on a collection of undergraduate males and females who were asked to illustrate a visual, on paper, given to them in a text. Based on this study, she creates a "feminist theory of design" and connects it to technical communicators.
In The Power of Feelings, Chodorow addresses the relation between culture and individual identity, the role of unconscious fantasy, and the epistemology of psychoanalytic theories. [27] She combines theoretical approaches, focusing on psychoanalysis and feminist theory, while acknowledging their shortcomings regarding gender psychology.
Feminine psychology or the psychology of women is an approach that focuses on social, economic, and political issues confronting women all throughout their lives. It emerged as a reaction to male-dominated developmental theories such as Sigmund Freud's view of female sexuality.
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (FPQ) is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting feminist philosophical scholarship. [1] Founded on 22 July 2015, [ 2 ] the journal is published quarterly and strives to include and incorporate the entirety of feminist philosophy across the world and including different traditions.