{"title":"Challenging the lack of BAME Authors in a Psychology Curriculum","authors":"G. Jankowski, Rowan Sandle, Merissa Brown","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"Decolonising psychology curricula faces substantial anti-racist inertia and a history of ‘using data limitations as an excuse not to push ahead’ (NUS & Universities UK, 2019; p.35). We report on a targeted curriculum decolonisation project at a British university. We quantitatively coded the identifiable ‘race’, gender and nationality of the authors set as reading at the beginning (in 2015–16) and three-years after the project began (in 2019–20). Our analysis revealed no significant change in the dominance of Globally Northern (95 per cent), white (95 per cent) and male (57 per cent) authors over time. Indeed, there were more White, male authors named John than BAME-female and male authors, of any name, collectively. We call on organisational bodies to promote decolonisation as part of course re-accreditation converging with staff’s interest.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129417428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Find what makes you comfortable, find what makes you euphoric’: A thematic analysis ‘centering’ trans and non-binary voices in understandings of gender identity construction","authors":"C. Davis, Lucy Thompson","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129147187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do women make sense of their experiences with pornography? A thematic analysis","authors":"Catherine Lucey, H. Malson","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.31","url":null,"abstract":"While pornography is increasingly widespread and accessible, women’s experiences with or views about it are seldom recognised or investigated. In this paper we explore how women make sense of their experiences with pornography. The analysis is based on data collected through qualitative questionnaires completed by 31 women. The data were analysed qualitatively using thematic analysis within a critical realist framework resulting in three key themes focusing on (1) contextualised experiences of porn, (2) female body norms and (3) gender power relations in porn. Our analysis illustrates some of the complexities in women’s experiences of and perspectives on porn and, we argue, indicates a need to view these experiences in the contexts of wider cultural ideologies of sex and gender.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114457042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong","authors":"A. Rousaki","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128722487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanya Beetham, Emma L. Turley, L. Lazard, Lucy Thompson, L. Donnelly
{"title":"An intersectional feminist response to the UK government’s Violence Against Women and Girls 2021–2024 Strategy consultation","authors":"Tanya Beetham, Emma L. Turley, L. Lazard, Lucy Thompson, L. Donnelly","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarises our review of and response to the UK government’s public consultation process on the 2021–2024 Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy. From an intersectional feminist perspective, we identify methodological, ethical and conceptual limitations to the consultation process, highlighting that a heavy focus on criminalisation risks compounding barriers for those seeking support or justice as it does not engage with the lived experiences of those who experience violence. Examples of violence in the public survey released for consultation were underpinned by racist and Islamophobic discourse, constructing Othered groups of people as violent by drawing on sensationalised and racialised forms of violence. In response, we provide recommendations and considerations for strategy reform, and for those working and researching in the VAWG sector.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115316468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sociology of housework revisited: Just a housewife after all these years","authors":"Tina Franklin, Toni Brennan","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.43","url":null,"abstract":"This small study follows in the footsteps of Oakley’s (1974) The Sociology of Housework. Based on interviews with 40 London housewives more than 45 years after its publication, it is an exploration of the lived experience of five contemporary working class London housewives. Thematic Analysis revealed striking parallels with Oakley’s findings: nearly half a century later, gender ideologies are still restricting, damaging and confining some women into the home, with their work not acknowledged as work, with no independent selves, no control over finances and no way of meeting their personal needs.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124507323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UK Black hair matters: A thematic analysis exploring Afro-Caribbean women’s hair as representations of the socially constructed knowledge of identity and identity threats","authors":"S. Griffiths, Melanie Haughton","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.17","url":null,"abstract":"Hair has the ability to visibly define ethnic difference, determine identity and impact self-esteem. Although empirical research has explored the hair texture altering behaviours of African American women, the experiences of Afro-caribbean women in the UK have been under-investigated despite being shaped by distinct cultural and historical contexts. Guided by the theoretical explanations of identity processes theory and situational identity and threats, semi-structured interviews of UK Afro-Caribbean women were used to investigate intergroup factors which affect their responses to intergroup relations and the salience of personal and social identity. Through the social constructionist epistemological approach, thematic analysis suggested that Afro-Caribbean women’s hair was subjectively positioned as a source of everyday subtle racism. The findings differ from American studies as UK Afro-Caribbean women describe the threat to identity as not only pervasive but endemic.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130655881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talk about Legal Gender: Thoughts on what legal consciousness studies and discursive psychology together can reveal","authors":"E. Peel","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128778061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marcia Worrell – Tributes and celebrations","authors":"G. Jankowski","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.1.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123980208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shades of Black: Contemporary London Black women’s presentation dilemmas negotiating racist colonial legacy and Black affirmation","authors":"Millicent McCumeskey, S. Essuman, E. Amoah","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2021.4.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study traces a brief history of the inequalities faced by Black women concerning beauty and the body, before exploring the lived experiences of ten London Black women. The interviews explored women’s lived experience of three different beauty practices: 1) skin lightening; and/or 2) hair straightening to fit with a white aesthetically pleasing ideal; and 3) body modifications, specifically buttock enhancement, reflecting a growing trend that resists the normative thin white ideal by celebrating (and surgically enhancing) the curvaceous female Black body. Four intertwined themes emerged from the analysis: racism, identity, social capital, and self-esteem.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129023947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}