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Exploring possibilities for a feminist ethic of collective care in suicide research Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Hazel Marzetti
Suicide is a major public health concern responsible for around 700,000 deaths globally every year. In response, researchers worldwide seek to understand suicide and suicide prevention, primarily using quantitative methods. As such, the development of qualitative methods tailored for the complexities of working with participants, for whom the primary ethical concern occupying researchers and ethics
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Book Review: Psychology and Gender by Sadhana Avinash Natu Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Triana Wulandari, Crusita Widya Anggraeni, Nono Hery Yoenanto
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Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Joanne Hunt
Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common to both feminism and (critical, feminist) disability studies. However, feminist literature largely lacks both an appreciation of the gendered, intersectional nature of disability as constituted and propagated by psy, and an exploration of how integrating disability as a category of analysis
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Complaining while disabled: Disabled people's experiences expressing complaints within the context of sexuality Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Ásta Jóhannsdóttir, Embla Guðrúnar Ágústsdóttir
Within critical disability research, little attention has been paid to the concept of complaint in relation to disabled people. While the demand for thankfulness has been studied to some extent, it is interesting to investigate how and if the complaints of disabled people are heard. This paper explored disabled people's experiences of expressing complaints within the context of sexuality, and the reaction
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“We were cast aside”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of abortion journeys from Ireland Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Rebecca A Heslin, Siobhán O’Higgins, Aisling T O’Donnell
Between 1983 and 2018, approximately 170,000 people journeyed abroad to access abortions outside Ireland due to Ireland having one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. This paper analyses the lived experience of people who made such journeys, contributing to the literature on restricted abortion access and forced abortion travel. Six in-depth interviews were analysed using interpretative
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Constructions of diversity, hierarchies, and identity intersections in LGBTQ+ activists’ interview talk Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Ioannis Michos, Lia Figgou
LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based
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“Hey, where’s my low-key sexist objectification?”: A blind woman's reflections on being banished and liberated from normative femininity and the gaze Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Michelle Botha
In this autoethnographic paper, I present some personal reflections on negotiating tricky identity-related terrain as sociocultural beliefs about disability, femininity, impairment, and sexuality interact with my embodiment as a blind woman. This has primarily to do with being in some ways liberated and in other ways banished from both normative femininity and the gaze. I describe the complicated double-binds
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Dealing with discomfort: Affective dissonance in fathers’ narratives of violence Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Rannveig Ágústa Guðjónsdóttir, Kalle Berggren
Researchers focusing on fathers’ violence and perpetrator programmes have expressed growing interest in the question of change. Yet, there has been little dialogue in relation to feminist affect theories on change. Drawing on the narratives of eight fathers in Iceland who had been violent against their female partner and/or children, we suggest that attending to comfort and discomfort is central to
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“Even when I feel alone, I always know I’m not really alone”: An intersectional analysis of LGBTQIA+–BIPOC's experiences of community and resistance Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Joshua G. Parmenter, Elizabeth Grace Wong, Najia Sabahat Khan, Lee Pradell, Renee V. Galliher
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) live at the intersection of marginalized identities, resulting in unique experiences of exclusion within their various communities. Despite experiences of community exclusion, LGBTQIA+–BIPOC find ways to resist such structures to thrive in the face of adversity and strive for
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Coping with gendered racism in the British healthcare sector: A feminist and phenomenological approach Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Nkechinyelu Ann Edeh, Patrizia Kokot-Blamey, Sarah Riley
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest employers in the world and relies heavily on Black migrant women. Nonetheless, reports of (gendered) racism persist. This phenomenologically inspired qualitative study shares findings from empirical interview data with female Nigerian doctors and nurses working in the NHS, with a specific focus on how these women cope with the racism and gendered
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“Friends? Supported. Partner? Not so much …”: Women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships during perimenopause and menopause Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Nikki Hayfield, Hannah Moore, Gareth Terry
In recent years, there has been increased cultural interest in perimenopause and menopause. The importance of peri/menopause in many women's lives makes this topic particularly pertinent for feminist psychologists. Some feminist scholars have acknowledged both physical and psychological factors as important aspects of women's experiences within their wider social and cultural contexts. However, consideration
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Loss of autonomy, legitimization of violence, transgression of intimacy, and fear of abuse: A thematic analysis of stories of gynecological violence and its consequences Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Manuel Cárdenas-Castro, Stella Salinero-Rates
Previous research indicates the presence of deeply ingrained gender biases within the health system, resulting in instances of mistreatment and violence against women and sexual dissidents. This study aimed to explore the stories of people assigned female at birth about their experiences of gynecological violence in Chile. Twenty-one women were recruited as participants, and semistructured interviews
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Book Review: Violence in everyday life: Power, gender, and sexuality by Aliraza Javaid Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Joseph Mwita Kisito
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“I hardly see the husband”: Noticing the absence of men in paid domestic labour research Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Amy Jo Murray, Kevin Durrheim
Feminist scholars have focused on paid domestic labour as a site of gendered inequalities structured by race, gender, class, and citizenship. However, men are largely absent from feminist intersectional understandings of everyday interactions within paid domestic labour. This paper draws on an interview study of South African domestic workers focusing on their talk about interactions with male employers
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Examining meaning-making and decolonial resistance in Pakistani women's stories of navigating coloniality and gender Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Nabiha Chaudhary
Although Pakistan attained independence from the British colonial rule in 1947, the effects of colonial violence endure in the psychosocial realities of Pakistani people. Centering the stories about coloniality of two women leaders working in nongovernmental organizations, this article examines how psychological processes of meaning-making and decolonial resistance manifest in women's engagement with
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“People need to be valued because of who they are”: Self-conception and strategies of resistance in women who challenge weight-loss diet culture Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Tess Jaeger, Natalie Jovanovski
This paper explores how the self-beliefs of women who have rejected weight-loss diet culture inform their strategies of resistance. We conducted a qualitative survey inviting participants to share methods they have used to challenge diet culture. One hundred and twelve women ( Mage = 37.01, SD = 10.54) provided complete responses. Most were heterosexual (72%) and resided in Australia (59%). Our thematic
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Book Review: 21st century media and female mental health: Profitable vulnerability and sad girl culture by Fredrika Thelandersson Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Neda Ansaari
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The failed promise of consent in women's experiences of coercive and unwanted anal sex with men Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Maria João Faustino, Nicola Gavey
In this article, we critically interrogate the concept of consent in relation to women's experiences of coerced and unwanted heterosexual anal sex. Among the 18 women we interviewed (all living in New Zealand), some clearly labelled their experiences of unwanted anal sex with men as nonconsensual. Many others, however, suggested that they had, in some way, consented. We identified two main discursive
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Heteronormative discourse: Therapist social constructions of intimate partner violence in queer relationships Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Siouxsie Bytheway, Danielle Stephens-Lewis
Researchers have suggested the victim/perpetrator paradigm for understanding intimate partner violence (IPV) is limited when considering queer relationships. Instead, some propose a poststructural feminist approach as better suited for understanding the complexities involved. However, in the UK, this approach is rarely adopted. We therefore put a poststructural feminist approach to research into practice
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Book Review: Islamic feminism: Discourses on gender and sexuality in contemporary Islam by Lana Sirri Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Frida Akmalia
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Modern bridal femininity: Navigating niceness as a Princess Bride and a Bridezilla in the United States Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Elizabeth A. Sharp
Despite the widespread popularity of United States (US) weddings and the cultural significance assigned to modern brides, scant research has examined US bridal femininity—an important site of analy...
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Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Annette Brömdal, Sherree Halliwell, Tait Sanders, Kirsty A Clark, Jessica Gildersleeve, Amy B Mullens, Tania M Phillips, Joseph Debattista, Carol du Plessis, Kirstie Daken, Jaclyn M W Hughto
Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as “vulnerable populations” due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violati...
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Refugee women's pregnancy and childbirth experiences in the US: Examining context through a reproductive justice framework Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Autumn Kirkendall, Anjali Dutt
Maternal health in the United States is an area of immediate concern. The compounded disadvantages and unique global positions of refugee women highlight the need for research that explores the exp...
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To know and be known: Mexican borderland mothers’ epistemic experiences Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Azucena Verdín, Maria Torres, Brookelyn Bush
Few studies have examined how Mexican-origin mothers experience epistemic harm irrespective of its impact on childrearing. Clinicians and researchers can benefit from understanding how public narra...
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Designedly intentional misgendering in social interaction: A conversation analytic account Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 David Matthew Edmonds, Marco Pino
Misgendering – moments where someone refers to, describes, or addresses a person as a gender different to the one they identify with – is a challenge that trans people can face in social interactio...
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What are we aiming for? Exploring tensions in healthcare provider perspectives on and communications about eating disorder recovery Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Andrea LaMarre, Kelsey Gilbert, Pamela A. Scalise
Eating disorder recovery is differently understood in multi-disciplinary healthcare contexts. In this study, we sought to better understand how healthcare providers (HCPs) describe recovery and com...
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Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Rebecca Helman
Within research on sexual violence, womxn who have been raped are positioned as “vulnerable” participants, while researchers tend to occupy positions of “invulnerability”. Drawing on vulnerable mom...
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Reproductive governance and the affective economy Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Jabulile Mary-Jane-Jace Mavuso, Rachelle Chadwick
The governance of reproductive practices, processes, decision-making, experiences, desires, subjectivities, and bodies has received and continues to receive significant attention in feminist effort...
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Navigating feminist and biomedical conceptual frameworks in educational interventions for eating disorders: Spanish educators’ understandings of the causes and treatment of eating disorders Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 María García-Ruiz, Paulo Padilla-Petry
The biomedical view of eating disorders (EDs) dominates in their classification and treatment regardless of the importance of sociocultural factors in EDs. Critical feminist approaches to EDs try t...
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Dress codes written for dietetics education programs: A Foucauldian discourse analysis Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Michele A “Shelly” DeBiasse, Shannon M Peters, Baderha Bujiriri
Organized in the US in 1917, dietetics emerged from the discipline of home economics as an “acceptable” area of study for women. Since its inception, dietetics has lacked diversity; most dietetics ...
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The cost of pleasing social expectations: A serial mediation of Israeli mothers’ anxiety and depression in the relationship between defensiveness and parental self-efficacy Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Miri Kestler-Peleg
In a social atmosphere of expecting mothers to sacrifice their own wellbeing for the sake of their children's wellbeing, pregnant women are compelled to find their stance in relation to these sets ...
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Comparing social representations of feminism among education and engineering majors: Insights for developing feminist pedagogies Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Patricia Fernández Rotaeche, Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon, Joana Jaureguizar Albóniga-Mayor
The present study uses Social Representation Theory to explore students’ representations of feminism with a view to informing principles for developing feminist pedagogies that can help foster egal...
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Decolonizing feminist knowledge: The standpoint of majority world feminist activists in Perú Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Shelly Grabe
From its beginnings, feminism has challenged knowledge about women and gender and questioned the methods by which that knowledge is produced. Feminist psychologists are well-positioned to engage in...
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Book Review: Birthing black mothers by Jennifer C. Nash Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Nicole Miriam Daniels
We are living at a time in human history where the unthinkable has become reality, as the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, which derails hard-won reproductive freedoms, makes glaringly obvious. Against this backdrop, Jennifer Nash's Birthing Black Mothers is a timely and important contribution to the literature on reproductive politics in America. Nash draws attention to the public dimension
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The affective afterlife of naked body protests Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Mpho Mathebula, Hugo Canham
In this paper, we explore the afterlife of naked body protests through an examination of interview and archival data from women who participated in various naked protests in South Africa. We engage...
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Making meaning of women's persistence and protagonism in the wake of genocidal violence: Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 M. Brinton Lykes, Gabriela Távara, Catalina Rey-Guerra
Fifteen Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala, were interviewed 17 years after publishing their feminist participatory action photovoice research. Their book documents gross violations o...
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Online breastfeeding publics: Sociality, support and selfies Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Sharon Tugwell
This article focuses on the practice of breastfeeding selfies, as a relational practice within online breastfeeding groups. I suggest that despite breastfeeding being upheld as the most superior infant feeding method, the practice has a paradoxical relationship to discourses of the “good mother” and the idealisation of motherhood more generally. This is due to the unashamed boldness of the practice
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#mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Rose Capdevila, Charlotte Dann, Lisa Lazard, Sandra Roper, Abigail Locke
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s
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Digital families: Gendered relationships in online spaces Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Abigail Locke, Rose Capdevila, Lisa Lazard
This Special Issue sets out to consider gendered family relationships in digital spaces. These spaces, including social media, digital media, streaming services, and web pages, have increased access to family-focused content online. Drawing on critical feminist psychological perspectives that question the prioritisation of essentialist and normative conceptualisations of family and gender, this special
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Constructions of family relationships in a COVID Christmas: An analysis of television advertisements on YouTube Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Madeleine Pownall, Eve Eyles-Smith, Catherine V. Talbot
Christmas time is a site of intensified domesticity, a reliance on traditional norms, and centring of family relationships. Christmas in the year 2020 was unique in this regard, given how the COVID...
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Mothering on the web: A feminist analysis of posts and interactions on a Chilean Instagram account on motherhood Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Priscila Astudillo-Mendoza, Francisca Cifuentes-Zunino
Social networking sites (SNS) have become important spaces during the early years of parenting. They allow users to access information, share experiences and provide an opportunity to establish sup...
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Adolescent perspectives on gendered ideologies in physical activity within schools: Reflections on a female-focused intervention Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Michelle O’Reilly, Amelia Talbot, Deirdre Harrington
There has been growing concern about rising physical inactivity levels in female adolescents, with schools taking some responsibility to address this. Programmes designed for and by girls are increasingly being used by developing or delivering a programme of change and consultation to improve physical activity, physical education, and sport in school. However, to build an understanding of the nuances
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Conspiracy theories in online deliberation on gender identity legislation: Dilemmas of prejudice and political partisanship and implications for LGBTQI+ claims Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Antonis Sapountzis, Lia Figgou, Ioannis Michos
Conspiracy theories have recently come under the scrutiny of social psychology. While some theorists have treated them as a deficient way of thinking, others have considered them as a form of political rhetoric with important social implications. We focus on conspiracy theories in the context of online public deliberation on legislation allowing registration of self-defined gender in Greece. Employing
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Book Review: A feminist companion to social psychology by Madeleine Pownall and Wendy Rogers Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Özden Melis Uluğ, Yasemin Gülsüm Acar
A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology is a critical contribution to often-mainstream introductions to the field. The text provides an account of the history of social psychology, infuses this discussion with long-standing yet ever-current debates around privilege, power, and intersectionality, and shows what it can bring to the table for social psychology. We see this as an excellent introductory
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Contributions to reducing online gender harassment: Social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Lilith A. Whiley, Lukasz Walasek, Marie Juanchich
Inspired by similar methods shown to be effective in reducing online racist harassment, we designed two tweets aimed at reducing online gender harassment. Our interventions were based on the principles of social re-norming and appealing to harassers’ empathy. In a sample of 666 Twitter users engaging in sexist or misogynist tweeting, we found that our intervention tweets did not reduce the number of
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Fighting for abortion rights: Strategies aimed at managing stigma in a group of Italian pro-choice activists Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Ilaria Giovannelli, Terri Mannarini, Federica Spaccatini, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli
Despite societal changes in Western countries, abortion continues to be morally stigmatized. While research on abortion stigma targeted both at people who seek or voluntarily terminate their pregnancy and abortion providers has been conducted, stigma directed at those who advocate abortion rights has remained under-researched. The purpose of this study was to deepen understandings of abortion stigma
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Feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress: Tracing a pattern Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Eugenie Georgaca, Vasiliki Fenekou, Aikaterini Katsouli, Evangelia Kyriakou-Chatziapostolou
This paper describes a pattern regarding the relationship between feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress that was discerned in two independent multiple case studies in Greece. One study utilized grounded theory to develop a model of therapeutic change through recording the development of voice hearers’ understanding and coping with their voices during a therapeutic intervention. The
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“Troubled” derby subjectivities: Wellbeing and feminist new materialist movements in sport Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Adele Pavlidis
Roller derby is a unique and innovative phenomenon in the sporting landscape. Body image, gender policies, aggression/contact elements, music, art, and subversive and inclusive politics are all embraced to various degrees. Its growth was swift and significant – thousands of women around the world strapped on their skates and pushed themselves to meet the minimum skills requirements for joining a derby
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“I am not a monster”: An affective–discursive analysis of men's perspectives on their engagement in violence against women Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Katrín Ólafsdóttir, Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir
This paper aims to explore how men perform masculinities in their relationships with women and how their behaviour is enabled and/or maintained in modern society. An affective–discursive approach was adopted to analyse six in-depth interviews with men who identified as perpetrators of violence in intimate relationships. The analysis portrays how heteronormative discourses on masculinity frame participants’
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POWES is pronounced “feminist”: Negotiating academic and activist boundaries in the talk of UK feminist psychologists Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-05 Lois C. Donnelly, Katherine Hubbard, Rose Capdevila
The Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) accounts for much of the feminist action in British psychology and beyond. In this qualitative study, we use discursively informed thematic analysis to examine a set of eleven in-depth interviews to explore the everyday experiences of feminists within academic spaces in and around the discipline of psychology
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“Facilitating wife” and “feckless manchild”: Working mothers’ talk about divisions of care on Mumsnet Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Yvonne Ehrstein
This article considers a culturally marginalised yet consequential gendered discourse that positions women as “wife” alongside their role as mother in working women's talk about divisions of care on Britain's largest parenting site, Mumsnet. Unlike most previous research on Mumsnet that has focused on the construction and partial resistance of normative ideas of motherhood, this paper suggests that
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Digital mothering: Sharenting, family selfies and online affective-discursive practices Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Lisa Lazard
Posting about one’s children and family has become a routine practice for mothers on social media. The task of presenting oneself as a “good” mother is subject to the trouble of competing requirements around motherhood (e.g., neoliberal intensive mothering, feminine relationality) as well as family ideals which are unrealistic for many. These troubles are further complicated by sharenting discourses
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Navigating violence and risk: A critical discourse analysis of blind women's portrayals of self-protective measures Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Alexis Fabricius, Kieran O’Doherty, Alexandra Rutherford
Women with disabilities experience high rates of violence and harassment, yet meaningful violence prevention interventions providing the opportunity to learn how to be active agents in their own self-protection are virtually non-existent. To understand why, we draw on insights from feminist disability studies to explore some of the unexamined assumptions and discourses in gender-based violence prevention
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“A day-to-day struggle”: A comparative qualitative study on experiences of women with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Alexandra Hawkey, K. Jane Chalmers, Sowbhagya Micheal, Helene Diezel, Mike Armour
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is a term that encompasses a range of conditions, including endometriosis, vulvodynia, painful bladder syndrome and adenomyosis. Given the impact on penetrative sex, fertility and potentially motherhood, CPP may also impact on women's identities as a wife or partner, a mother, and a woman. The aim of this study was to explore similarities and differences in experiences
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Seeking safety from male partner violence in Turkey: Toward a context-informed perspective on women's decisions and actions Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan
Women's stay/leave decision-making in violent relationships has become a subject of investigation in psychology over the last few decades. Despite making significant contributions to the understanding of how women's psychological processes shape their responses to violence, much of this research has lacked a contextualized approach. The present study aimed to provide a feminist context-informed examination
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Genital fashioning: Postfeminist discourse and mediating understandings of choice Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Alexandra James
Female genital fashioning practices, a term encompassing a range of temporary and permanent options for cosmetic genital alteration, are becoming an increasingly prominent part of contemporary beauty regimes. Drawing on a series of 11 small focus groups and 10 interviews with 34 Australian women aged 18–30, this paper explores the ways that cisgender young women negotiate a combination of social pressures
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A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of mothers’ voiced accounts of the “duty to protect” children from fatness and fatphobia Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Sarah Gillborn, Bridgette Rickett, Maxine Woolhouse
Research has highlighted damaging contradictions in the responsibilisation of mothers over children's health, at once held responsible for tackling “childhood obesity” while being cautious not to encourage children to become obsessive with their bodies. While research has highlighted discourses of blame and elucidated mothers’ experiences, less is known about how mothers negotiate discourse in their
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Mapping the abject: Women's embodied experiences of premenstrual body dissatisfaction through body-mapping Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Samantha Ryan, Jane M Ussher, Alexandra Hawkey
Women's body shame and body dissatisfaction increase in the premenstrual phase of the cycle, associated with premenstrual distress. However, the meaning and consequences of premenstrual body dissatisfaction remain underexplored. The aim of this study was to explore how women who report premenstrual body dissatisfaction construct and experience their bodies, using qualitative arts-based methods. Four
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The intersection of autism and gender in the negotiation of identity: A systematic review and metasynthesis Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Isobel Moore, Gareth Morgan, Alice Welham, Ginny Russell
Influenced by theories of intersectionality, performativity and gender hegemony, this review sought to explore the intersection of autism and gender in qualitative research into autistic identity. Twelve papers were subjected to a thematic metasynthesis following a systematic search. Study participants were predominantly cisgender female or gender-diverse: perspectives of cisgender autistic males were
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Prejudice in ‘inclusive’ spaces: Cisgenderist collusion in the interview context Feminism & Psychology (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Gabriel Knott-Fayle, Elizabeth Peel, Gemma L. Witcomb
Feminist reflexivity aims to (re)consider and challenge power differentials that exist in the research process. This activity is well represented in, for example, research into heterosexism. In this article we expand feminist reflexive practice in relation to cisgenderism through a (re)examination of interview transcripts conducted by a cisgender researcher on the topic of cisgenderism in media representations