{"title":"Taking up space: Female experiences of anorexia recovery and psychotherapy training","authors":"Shamini Sriskandarajah","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study used autoethnography and semi-structured collaborative interviews to examine the lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder and becoming a therapist/counsellor. The study used a free association narrative approach. Artwork, journals and conversations with university colleagues, clinicians and participants were included in this research of the self.\u0000Reflecting on semi-structured interviews with therapists who have recovered from anorexia, and ongoing written and visual autoethnographic research into her own eating disorder, recovery, and journey into becoming a therapist, the researcher considers the complexity of being seen as a ‘narcissistic’ woman. She also reflects on the difficulties of transitioning from girlhood to womanhood when anorexia developed as a child, and other issues of difference faced as a therapist, including ethnicity, age, parental and marital status.\u0000Surrounded by others’ gaze and ambivalent messages about narcissism and a woman’s place in the world, she looks at her own journey as a recovered anorexic, a newly qualified therapist and an autoethnographic researcher. She questions how to resolve the anorexic struggle about wanting to be seen and wanting to be invisible.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122301080","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":"Guild princesses and mean girls: Internalised misogyny and gaming","authors":"April K. Dye, Kelli Y. Williams","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"The demographic of gamers is rapidly changing, and currently an estimated 42 per cent of gamers are female. As a result, research is beginning to look at the sexism which is often characteristic of the experiences of female gamers and the content of games themselves. Our research focused on the negative and positive interactions of female gamers both in games as well as gaming communities in relation to internalised misogyny. A survey of female gamers (N = 86) demonstrated that 41 per cent had experienced negative interactions with other female gamers. Participants were asked to elaborate on these interactions through open-ended responses which were analysed for thematic content. Their experiences with female players included negative attention-seeking behaviours, competitiveness, relational aggression, and critiques of play style, but also examples of female solidarity. These findings show consistency with the concept of internalised misogyny.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127619120","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":"Silent Heroines, No More","authors":"Devina Dee Lister","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127662024","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":"‘Feminazis’: A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis into the mainstream media’s representations of feminist activism","authors":"D. Brannan","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.85","url":null,"abstract":"Using a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis (FPDA) this research examines discourses surrounding feminist activists within mainstream Western online media articles. The mainstream media can be accused of portraying feminism and its goals negatively (Scharff 2009), often leading to negative consequences regarding identification with the feminist movement (Callaghan et al., 1999). To examine these discourses within mainstream media, 50 articles relating to the Women’s March on Washington were sampled from US and UK online newspaper sites. The findings of this research suggest that although there are both positive and negative discourses surrounding feminist activism within mainstream media, a large proportion were negative, including discourses of ‘feminism is fractured’, ‘hashtag activism’ and ‘What about the men?’ Discussions around intersectionality (including race), social media and men within feminism were seen within these overarching discourses and throughout the research the possible implications of these negative discourses surrounding feminist activists is discussed.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133290769","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":"Feminisms and leadership in liminal spaces: Struggles, potentials and the collateral labour of feminist leadership","authors":"Lucy Thompson","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133314396","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":"‘All-action hero’ or ‘Slap in the face for womankind’? Discursive representations of Angelina Jolie following her prophylactic bilateral mastectomy","authors":"J. Rooney","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"When Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie underwent a prophylactic mastectomy, public demands for human tumour suppressor gene BRCA1 testing almost doubled (Evans & Howell, 2015). This paper explores the discursive positioning of Jolie following her procedure in 20 UK newspaper articles using Foucauldian discourse analysis. Jolie was positioned within the discourse in two different ways: the ‘she-ro’ (an agentic decision maker who saved countless lives), and a ‘selfish attention seeker’ (a needy and melodramatic woman who unnecessarily invokes public paranoia and panic). A third (implied) subject position that was identified in the data is the ‘silent and dignified’ post-mastectomy woman who doesn’t need to ‘shout it from the rooftops’. I argue that these subject positions may serve to silence the lived experience of many prophylactic mastectomy patients and render invisible the suffering that some women can experience post-surgery. This implies that counselling and educational services for women who are considering (or who have undergone) prophylactic mastectomy are essential. To conclude, avenues for future research are suggested.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128610169","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":"Special Issue: Gender and gaming","authors":"J. Cole, S. Grogan","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134092074","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":"Young femininity in Iceland and its discontents","authors":"Ásta Jóhannsdóttir","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2018.1.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"Despite Iceland’s outstanding performance on global indices measuring gender equality, young women report higher levels of depressive symptoms than young men. This suggests a more complex situation than what appears in public discourse, where Iceland is sometimes referred to as a feminist paradise. This paper attempts to unpack how young women and men define and understand young femininity. The theoretical framework draws on feminist and affect theories. The data were collected between 2012 and 2014, and consist of eighteen semi-structured interviews with young women and men, and group interviews with five young women based on co-operative inquiry. The analysis shows that the young women in the study attach negative affects to their feminine practices, and feel that their bodies do not measure up to acceptable femininity; their bodies are either too much or not enough. Their feelings of anxiety, insecurity and shame are not irrational as they are confirmed by the young men who are quick to shame female bodies that do not fit a the narrow ideal of feminine beauty. Somewhat surprisingly, the widespread image of Iceland as the most equal country in the world does not invite a conversation about the paradoxes women face, and thereby diminishes possibilities for young women to place their experiences in particular contexts.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121406042","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":"Space defenders: A Foucauldian analysis of power and privilege for women in positions of K–12 leadership","authors":"Jennifer L. Martin, Elizabeth Chase","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.26","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines women’s experiences within K-12 educational leadership in the US through a Foucauldian lens. Our recent analysis of the experiences of these leaders revealed that challenges such as imposter syndrome1, gendered microaggressions, differential expectations based on gender, and attribution errors, were still heavily reproduced in women’s accounts of leadership in the K-12 education system. Given this finding, we seek here to reframe our analysis in order to examine the institutional features that contribute to this lack of progress. In this paper, we argue that K-12 educational institutions serve as metaphorical Foucauldian panopticons where women self-police and regulate each other in order to better perform traditional gendered expectations, or find relative success within these institutions; those who do not are punished for non-compliance. So institutionally ingrained are these regulations, that those who are rewarded by this unfair system do not name the inherent discrepancies within the system; instead, they construct their success as something that was legitimately earned.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"363 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117114137","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":"Leaning in… by taking a stand, or the socio-historical preconditions for women’s leaderliness","authors":"T. J. Boisseau","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning with a review of some widely-circulated studies of social barriers inhibiting women’s cultivation of the self-esteem and confidence upon which leadership depends, the heart of this essay intentionally resembles intergenerational storytelling. This self-conscious daughterly narrative draws attention to the intersectional factors, and puts into historical perspective, a working-class mother’s striving in the 1970s and 1980s to achieve authorised presence as a leader. A series of vignettes chronicling her standing up with and for others discloses a structural explanation for the transformation in women’s sense of self permitting a perceptible acceleration in the general emergence of women leaders in the US context during the last quarter of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127604405","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}