Standpoints and Differences

Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests are psychosocial, including motherhood, family lives, social identities, young people, racialization and gender. She has particular interests in qualitative and mixed methods, re-use of data and narrative research.

Introduction - Karen Henwood, Christine Griffin and Ann Phoenix PART ONE: MODES OF ARGUING/THEORETICAL POSITIONING Dialogues and Differences - Rosalind Gill Writing, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Representation Telling Stories - Stevi Jackson Memory, Narrative and Experience in Feminist Research and Theory PART TWO: DIVERSE POSITIONINGS Women and Men Talk about Aggression - Corinne Squire An Analysis of Narrative Genre Voice and Ventriloquation in Girls' Development - Lyn Mikel Brown Researching Marginalized Standpoints - Harriet Marshall, Anne Woollett and Neelam Dosanjh Some Tensions around Plural Standpoints and Diverse `Experiences' Shameful Women - Bruna Seu Accounts of Withdrawal and Silence Gender Practices - Margaret Wetherell and Nigel Edley Steps in the Analysis of Men and Masculinities An Outsider Within - Sara Willott A Feminist Doing Research with Men PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND PRACTICE Beyond Innocence - Janneke van Mens-Verhulst Feminist Mental Health Care and the Postmodernist Perspective The Child, the Woman and the Cyborg - Erica Burman (Im)possibilities of Feminist Developmental Psychology

`An impressive statement from British feminist-mainly discursive social-psychology....The introduction....is a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the importance and limitations of the `axis between feminism and poststructuralism'. It maps the issues in a theoretical sophisticated way which should put paid to any lingering notions that psychologists can't work with critical theory' -Feminist Theory