The social construction of gender: A comparison of feminist and postmodern approaches

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-179

  Biever, Joan L ^a   De Las Fuentes, Cynthia ^a   Cashion, Lisa ^a   Franklin, Cynthia ^b  

^a OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNSELING; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORY;

EID: 0345055839     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515079808254052     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. ALLEN, K.R. & BABER, K.M. (1992) Ethical and epistemological tensions in applying a postmodern perspective to feminist research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 1-15.
2. ANDERSEN, T. (1991) The reflecting team: Dialogues and dialogues about the dialogues. New York: Norton.
3. ANDERSON, H. & GOOLISHIAN, H. (1988) Human systems as linguistic systems: Preliminary and evolving ideas about the implications for clinical theory. Family Process, 27, 3-12.
4. ANDERSON, H. & GOOLISHIAN, H. (1992) The client is the expert: A not-knowing approach to therapy. In S. MCNAMEE & K.J. GERGEN (Eds), Therapy as social construction (pp. 25-39). Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications.
5. ASHFORD, J.B. (1994) Are traditional empirical research methods inherently biased against people of color? No. In W.W. HUDSON & P.S. NURIUS (Eds), Controversial issues in social work research. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
6. AUERSWALD, E.H. (1987) Response to the problem of gender in family therapy theory. Family Process, 26, 29-31.
7. BASLOW, S.A. (1992) Gender: stereotypes and roles. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.
8. BELENKY, M.F., CLINCHY, B.M., GOLDBERGER, N.R. & TARULE, J.M. (1986) Women's ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and mind. New York: Basic Books.
9. BEM, S.L. & BEM, D.J. (1972) Homogenizing the American woman: the power of an unconscious ideology. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, October (Honolulu, HI).
10. BERGER, P. & LUCKMANN, T. (1966) The social construction of reality. New York: Doubleday.
11. BIEVER, J. L., GARDNER, G.T. & BOBELE, R.M. (in press) Postmodern perspectives: Social construction and narrative family practice. In C. FRANKLIN & C. JORDAN (Eds), Family practice: brief and systems methods for social work. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
12. BRABECK, M., BROWN, L., CHRISTIAN, L., ESPIN, O., HARE-MUSTIN, R., KAPLAN, A., KASCHAK, E., MILLER, D., PHILLIPS, E., FERNS, T. & VAN ORMER, A. (in press) Feminist theory and psychological practices. In N. JOHNSON & J. WORELL (Eds), Feminist visions: new directions for education and practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
13. BROWER, A.M. & NURIUS, P.S. (1993) Social cognition and individual change: Current theory and counseling guidelines. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
14. BURMAN, E. (1990) Differing with deconstruction: a feminist critique. In I. PARKER & J. SHOTTER (Eds), Deconstructing social psychology (pp. 208-220). London: Routledge.
15. CARTER, C., COUDROUGLOU, A., FIGUEIRA-MCDONOUGH, J., LIE, G. Y., MACEACHRON, A.E., NETTING, F.E., NICHOUS-CASEBOLT, A., NICHOLS, A.W., & RISLEY-CURTISS, C. (1994) Integrating women's issues in the social work curriculum. Journal of Social Work Education, 30, 200-216.
16. CHODOROW, N. (1978) The reproduction of mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press.
17. DE SHAZER, S. (1993) de Shazer and White: Vive la différence. In S. GILLIGAN & R. PRICE (Eds), Therapeutic conversations (pp. 112-120). New York: Norton.
18. DZIEGIELEWSKI, S.F. & HARRISON, D. (in press) Gender issues in family therapy. In C. FRANKLIN & C. JORDAN (Eds), Family practice: brief and systems methods for social work. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
19. ECHOLS, A. (1989) Daring to be bad: Radical feminism in America 1967 1975. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
20. EICHKNBAUM, L. & ORBACH, S. (1983) Between women: love, envy, and competition in women's friendships. New York: Viking.
21. FLAX, J. (1990) Postmodernism and gender relationships in feminist theory. In L.J. NICHOLSON (Ed.), Feminism/postmodernism (pp. 39-62). New York: Routledge.
22. FOUCAULT, M. (1979) Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison, trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage.
23. FOUCAULT, M. (1980a) Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings. Colin Gordon (Ed.). New York: Pantheon.
24. FOUCAULT, M. (1980b) The history of sexuality. Vol. I: An introduction, trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage/Random House.
25. FRANKLIN, C. (1995) Expanding the vision of the social constructionist debates: creating relevance for practitioners. Families in Society, 76(7), 395-407.
26. FRANKLIN, C. & NURIUS, P. (1996) Constructivist therapy: new directions in social work practice. Families in Society, 77(6), 323-325.
27. FREEDMAN, J. & COMBS, G. (1996) Narrative therapy: the social construction of preferred realities. New York: Norton.
28. GARFINKEL, H. (1967) Studies in ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
29. GERGEN, K. (1982) Toward transformation in social knowledge. New York: Springer-Verlag.
30. GERGEN, K. (1985) The social constructionist movement in modern psychology. American Psychologist, 40, 266-275.
31. GERGEN, K.J. (1994) Exploring the post-modern: perils or potentials? American Psychologist, 49(5), 412-416.
32. GILLIGAN, C. (1982) In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
33. GILLIGAN, S. & PRICE, R. (Eds) (1993) Therapeutic conversations. New York: Norton.
34. GOOD, G.E., GILBERT, L.A. & SCHER, M. (1990) Gender aware therapy: a synthesis of feminist therapy and knowledge about gender. Journal of Counseling and Development, 68, 376-380.
35. GRIFFITH, J.L. & GRIFFITH, M.E. (1994) The body speaks: therapeutic dialogues for mind-body problems. New York: Basic Books.
36. HARE-MUSTIN, R.T. (1994) Discourses in the mirrored room: a postmodern analysis of therapy. Family Process, 33, 19-33.
37. HARE-MUSTIN, R.T. & MARECEK, J. (1987) Gender and the meaning of difference: alpha and beta bias. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, August, in the symposium on: The future of difference: Representations of gender in psychology, J. Marecek & T.T. Hare-Mustin, chairs.
38. HARE-MUSTIN, R.T. & MARECEK, J. (1988) The meaning of difference: gender theory, postmodernism, and psychology. American Psychologist, 43, 455-464.
39. HARTMAN, A. (1995) Family therapy. In Encyclopedia of social work (19th edition, Vol. 2, pp. 983-991). Washington, DC: NASW Press.
40. HENDERSON, K.A. (1994) Perspectives on analyzing gender, women, and leisure. Journal of Leisure Research, 26(2), 119-137.
41. HENDERSON, K.A., BIALESCHKI, M.D., SHAW, S.M. & FREYSINGER, V.J. (1989) A leisure of one's own: a feminist perspective on women's leisure. State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc.
42. HOFFMAN, L. (1990) Constructing realities: an an of lenses. Family Process, 29, 1-12.
43. HOWARD, G.S. (1991) Cultural tales: A narrative approach to thinking, cross-cultural psychology, and psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 46, 187-197.
44. KELLER, H. (1985) Reflections on gender and science. New Haven: Yale University Press.
45. LERNER, H. (1974) Early origins of envy and devaluation of women: implications for sex role stereotypes. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 38, 538-553.
46. LERNER, H.K. (1982) Special issues for women in psychotherapy. In M. T. NOTMAN & C.C. NADELSON (Eds), The woman patient (Vol. 3; pp. 273-286). NY: Plenum Press.
47. MADIGAN, S. (Ed.) (1996) Revive: The magazine of the Vancouver Anti-anorexia/Anti-bulimia league, 2(1), 1-14.
48. MCGRATH, E., KEITA, O.P., STRICKLAND, B.R. & RUSSO, N.F. (Eds) (1990) Women and depression: risk factors and treatment issues. Washington, DC: APA.
49. MCNAMEE, S. & GERGEN, K.J. (Eds) (1992) Therapy as social construction. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
50. MIILLER, J.B. (1976) Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon Press.
51. MILLER, J.B. (1984) The development of women's sense of self. Work in Progress. No. 12. Wellesley: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
52. NAGEL, K.L. & JONES, K.H. (1992) Sociological factors is the development of eating disorders. Adolescence, 27, 107-113.
53. NICHOLSON, L.J. (Ed.) (1990) Feminism/postmodernism. New York: Routledge.
54. NURIUS, P. & FRANKLIN, C. (1998) The role of gender in practice knowledge research. In A. CASEBOLT, F.E. NETTING & J. FIGUEIRA-MCDONOUGH (Eds), The role of gender in practice knowledge: claiming half of the human experience. New York: Longman.
55. OSVOLD, L.L. & SODOWSKY, G.R. (1993) Eating disorders of white American, racial and ethnic minority American, and international women. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 21, 143-154.
56. O'HANLON, W.H. (1993) Possibility therapy: from iatrogenic injury to iatrogenic healing. In S. GILLIGAN & R. PRICE (Eds), Therapeutic conversations (pp. 3-17). New York: Norton.
57. PARRY, A. & DOAN, R.E. (1994) Story re-visions: narrative therapy in the postmodern world. New York: Guilford Press.
58. PARSONS, T. & BALES, R.F. (1955) Family, socialization, and interaction process. Glencoe, II.: Free Press.
59. PATTERSON, R. & TRATHEN, S. (1994) Feminist in(ter)ventions in family therapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 15, 91-98.
60. PENN, P. & FRANKFURT, M. (1994) Creating a participant text: writing, multiple voices, narrative multiplicity. Family Process, 33, 217-231.
61. RICHARDSON, F. & FRANKLIN, C. (1998) From phenomenology to hermaneutics. In S. ROBINSON (Ed.), Human behavior and the social environment. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
62. ROBERTS, J. (1994) Tales and transformations: stories and in families and family therapy. New York: Norton.
63. RORTY, R. (1982) Consequences of pragmatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
64. RORTY, R. (1985) Solidarity or objectivity? In J. RAJCHMAN & C. WEST (Eds), Post-analytic philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press.
65. SANDS, R.G. & NUCCIO, K. (1992) Postmodern feminist theory and social work. Social Work, 37(6), 489-493.
66. SARUP, M. (1993) An introductory guide to poststructuralism and postmodernism (2nd edn). New York: Harvester/Wheatsheaf.
67. SAULNIER, C.F. (in press) Feminist theories and social work: approaches and applications. New York: Haworth Press.
68. SCHULTZ, A. (1962) Collected papers. vol. 1: The problem of social reality (M. NATANSON, Ed.). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
69. SCOTT, J.W. (1986) Gender: a useful category for historical analysis. American Historical Review, 91, 1053-1075.
70. SHEINBERG, M. (1992) Navigating treatment impasses at the disclosure of incest: combining ideas from feminism and social constructionism. Family Process, 31, 201-216.
71. SLUZKI, C.E. (1992) Transformations: a blueprint for narrative changes in therapy. Family Process, 31, 217-230.
72. SMALL, S.A. (1995) Action-oriented research: models and methods. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 941-955.
73. STURDIVANT, S. (1980) Therapy with women: a feminist philosophy of treatment. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co.
74. SURREY, J. (1984) The 'self-in-relation': a theory of women's development. Work in Progress, No. 13. Wellesley: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
75. THORNE, B. (1982) Feminist rethinking of the family: an overview. In B. THORNE & M. YALOM (Eds), Rethinking the family: some feminist questions (pp. 1-24). New York: Longmans.
76. WEINGARTEN, K. (1992) A consideration of intimate and non-intimate interactions in therapy. Family Process, 31, 45-59.
77. WEINGARTEN, K. & COBB, S. (1994) Timing disclosure sessions: adding a narrative perspective to clinical work with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Family Process, 34, 257-269.
78. WHITE, M. & EPSTON, D. (1990) Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York: Norton.
79. ZIMMERMAN, J.L. & DICKERSON, V.C. (1994) Using a narrative metaphor: implications for theory and clinical practice. Family Process, 33, 233-245.