The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology takes an intersectional feminist approach to the exploration of psychology and gender through a lens of power. The invisibility of power in psychological research and theorizing has been critiqued by scholars from many perspectives both within and outside the discipline. This volume addresses that gap. The handbook centers power in the analysis of gender, but does so specifically in relation to psychological theory, research, and praxis. Gathering the work of sixty authors from different geographies, career stages, psychological sub-disciplines, methodologies, and experiences, the handbook showcases creativity in approach, and diversity of perspective. The result is a work featuring a chorus of different voices, including diverse understandings of feminisms and power. Ultimately, the handbook presents a case for the importance of intersectionality and power for any feminist psychological endeavor.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Feminist Theorizing on Power, Gender, and Psychology.- Part 1: Setting the stage.- 2. Power/History/Psychology: A Feminist Excavation.- 3. Beyond Identity: Intersectionality and Power.- Part 2: Institutions & settings.- 4. A Feminist Psychology of Gender, Work and Organizations.- 5. “To be treated as a Thing”: Discussing power relations with school children in Rio de Janeiro.- 6. “You Feel like you’re Throwing Your Life Away Just to make it Look Clean”: Insights into Women’s Everyday Management of Hearth and Home in Wales.- Part 3: Politics, Citizenship & Activism.- 7. Gender, Power, and Participation in Collective Action.- 8. The gendering of trauma in trafficking interventions.- 9. Surveillance and Gender-Based Power Dynamics: Psychological Considerations.- 10. Toward an Intersectional Understanding of Gender, Power, and Poverty.- 11. Dismantling the Master’s house with the Mistress’ Tools? The Intersection between Feminism and Psychology as a Site for Decolonization.- Part 4: Bodies and identities.- 12. Men and Masculinities: Structures, Practices and Identities.- 13. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Identities.- 14. The Power of Self-Identification: Naming the “Plus” in LGBT+.- 15. Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing Pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care.- 16. Power as Control / Power as Resistance and Vision: Disability and Gender in Psychology (and Beyond).- 17. Understanding power in feminist knowledges of bodyweight and appearance.- Part 5: Families & development.- 18. Gender Development Within Patriarchal Social Systems.- 19. Parenting as partnership: Exploring gender and caregiving in discourses of parenthood.- 20. Power, gender, and aging.- Part 6: Mental & Physical health.- 21. Empowerment and disempowerment in women’s sport.- 22. Understanding and Addressing LGBTQ Health Disparities: A Power and Gender Perspective.- 23. Reproductive Justice: Illuminating the intersectional politics of sexual and reproductive issues.- 24. Women’s Mental Health: A Critique of Hetero-Patriarchal Power and Pathologization.- Part 7: Violence.- 25. Saying it like it is? Sexual Harassment, Labelling and #Me Too.- 26. Power, Gender, and Intimate Partner Abuse: Empowerment, Patriarchy, and Discourse.- 27. A Narrative of Silencing: Exploring Sexual Violence Against Women at the Intersections of Power and Culture.- Part 8: Communication & technology.- 28. Gender and Power in Technological Contexts.- 29. Social media and gendered power: Young women, authenticity, and the curation of self.- Part 9: Implications & applications.- 30. Entitlement, Backlash, and Feminist Resistance.- 31. Friendship never ends? Postfeminism, Power and Female Friendships.- 32. Feminist therapy, art, and embodiment practices: Reclaiming the female body? – Part 10: Conclusion.- 33. Power, Gender, and Psychology: Common Themes and an Agenda.
About the author
Eileen L. Zurbriggen is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA where she is also affiliated with the Feminist Studies department. Her most recent book, co-authored with Ella Ben Hagai, is Queer Theory and Psychology: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgender Identities (2022).
Rose Capdevila is Professor of Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her current research is on gender in digital spaces and the history of UK feminist psychology. Rose is a past co-editor of Feminism & Psychology and co-authored A Feminist Companion to Research Methods in Psychology (2022) with Hannah Frith.
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