Power, Gender, and Psychology: Common Themes and an Agenda for the Future

Zurbriggen, Eileen L. and Capdevila, Rose (2023). Power, Gender, and Psychology: Common Themes and an Agenda for the Future. In: Zurbriggen, Eileen L. and Capdevila, Rose eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 613–616.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41531-9_33

Abstract

The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology showcases some of the most pioneering scholarship in psychology that analyzes power and gender. Five cross-cutting themes are discussed: the importance of feminist history, the need for psychologists to continually interrogate their own use of power, the significance of trusting people as experts on their own lives, the value of intersectionality theory, and the importance of structural and systemic change. The authors present three attractive pathways for future feminist psychological research on power and gender, as exemplified by the handbook’s contributors. First, the analytical lenses of power and gender should be applied even more broadly, to help address a wide range of social issues including autocracy, neoliberalism, police violence, and climate change. Second, scholars can develop and utilize innovative methodologies that attend to subjective experience and step back from a narrowly focused individualist approach that often dominates psychology. Finally, the reach and impact of a feminist analysis of gender and power are greatest when scholars embrace context and complexity, rather than turning away from or minimizing them.

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