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Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Lisa Cosgrove
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Abstract

Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the sociopolitical grounding of experience.

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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall 2003 , pp. 85 - 112
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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