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 PhoenixPART ONE: MODES OF ARGUING/THEORETICAL POSITIONINGDialogues and Differences - Rosalind GillWriting, Reflexivity and the Crisis of RepresentationTelling Stories - Stevi JacksonMemory, Narrative and Experience in Feminist Research and TheoryPART TWO: DIVERSE POSITIONINGSWomen and Men Talk about Aggression - Corinne SquireAn Analysis of Narrative GenreVoice and Ventriloquation in Girls′ Development - Lyn Mikel BrownResearching Marginalized Standpoints - Harriet Marshall, Anne Woollett and Neelam DosanjhSome Tensions around Plural Standpoints and Diverse `Experiences′Shameful Women - Bruna SeuAccounts of Withdrawal and SilenceGender Practices - Margaret Wetherell and Nigel EdleySteps in the Analysis of Men and MasculinitiesAn Outsider Within - Sara WillottA Feminist Doing Research with MenPART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND PRACTICEBeyond Innocence - Janneke van Mens-VerhulstFeminist Mental Health Care and the Postmodernist PerspectiveThe 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