Book chapter
Gender and Discourse
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology, pp.61-77
Sage
2013
Abstract
Historically, women have tended to be ignored in psychological research, or, when attention has been paid, it has been to document the ways in which women deviated from the ‘normal’male subject of psychological research. Inspired by the critiques of second wave feminism, in the 1970s and 1980s psychologists began listening to women’s voices using qualitative methods. While this attention to women’s voices was important and overdue, straightforward description of women’s accounts of their own experiences misses other aspects of the wider experience of living in a gendered world. Voices speak in languages, and the kinds of discourses that are available in the languages with which we speak shape and limit what we can say about our experience.
Details
- Title
- Gender and Discourse
- Authors/Creators
- T. Kurz (Author/Creator)N. Donaghue (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology, pp.61-77
- Publisher
- Sage; London
- Identifiers
- 991005541727307891
- Copyright
- The authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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