Challenging Women : Psychology's Exclusions, Feminist Possibilities

Abstract

Part 1 Theoretical challenges: women, food and fat - too many cooks in the kitchen? constructing femininity - models of sexual abuse and the production of Woman in a bad humour with psychology. Part 2 Reflecting on research: heavy periods - the process of collusion and compromise in research black parent governors - a hidden agenda keeping mum - paradoxes of power relations in interviewing. Part 3 Institutions, interventions and difference: gendered care and the structuring of group relations child - professional - parent - researcher fit to parent? developmental psychology and non-traditional families power in feminist organizations.