- Title
- ‘Who? what?’: an uninducted view of towards a new psychology of women from post-Apartheid South Africa
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6251
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007869
- Identifier
- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353508092088
- Description
- From the text: Towards a New Psychology of Women (TPNW) promises a new psychology of “women”. On the cover of the second edition, the Toronto Globe and Mail is cited as acclaiming the book as “nothing short of revolutionary” as it “set out to recognize, re-define and understand the day-to-day experience of women”. But when we take a closer look at these “women” we discover that they are in fact “white”, (for the most part) middle-class women living in heterosexual relationships in a liberal democracy. This kind of exclusionary inclusion, in which the use of the generic term “woman” disguises the normative assumptions made about the race, class, sexual orientation and location of women, replicates the phallocentrism evidenced in the normalising masculinist terms “mankind” or “Man”. By now, of course, these kinds of critiques of “white” Western feminism by African American writers (e.g. Collins, 1999) postcolonial feminists (e.g. Mohanty, 1991), African feminists (e.g. Ogundipe-Leslie, 1994; Mangena, 2003), and queer theorists (e.g. Jackson, 1999) are well known.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2008) ‘Who? what?’: An uninducted view of towards a new psychology of women from post-Apartheid South Africa. Feminism & Psychology, 18 (3). pp. 347-357. ISSN 0959-3535. Available online: http://fap.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/18/3/347
- Rights
- This article is the pre-print version used with permission from the publisher.
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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