Copy the page URI to the clipboard
Lazard, Lisa; McAvoy, Jean and Capdevila, Rose
(2016).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss239
Abstract
Whilst the discipline of psychology has an indigenous critical and feminist tradition, postmodern feminist approaches have developed from, as well as alongside, the broader philosophical and theoretical critiques generated initially in other disciplines. The focus of postmodern feminist work in psychology is on the construction of gender and relations of power. It seeks to unpack the discursive practices that create the grand narratives of mainstream psychological work. By rejecting the possibility of universal objective truths, postmodern feminist psychology can ask questions about the operation of gendered power relations and how these become played out in and through knowledge.