{"title":"Am I vulnerable? Researcher positionality and affect in research on gendered vulnerabilities","authors":"Satu Venäläinen","doi":"10.1177/09593535231171694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231171694","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I draw on arts-based approaches and new materialist affect theory in order to explore possibilities to attune research outputs to researcher vulnerability. These approaches and theorisations challenge conventional research practices geared toward creating distance between the researcher and their research, and work towards dissolving hierarchical distinctions between assumedly invulnerable researchers and vulnerable participants. In doing so, they pave the way for attuning research work to the complex interplay of difference and sameness as it unfolds and surfaces in the process of researching gendered vulnerabilities. By presenting a piece of poetic writing that engages with research encounters within a project on sexual harassment and young people, I tap into the troubled affect, the constant interplay of difference, shifting alignments, and ultimate entwinements between the researcher, the phenomenon of sexual harassment, and the research participants and other involved actors. Based on my inquiry, I propose attending to vulnerability through affect theory as an encompassing and dynamic state of being affected and affecting others, both in violent ways and in ways that aim to build solidarity and empathy.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"15 1","pages":"357 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77680979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systemic vulnerability: Towards a theoretical framework for identifying institutional failures that violate rights","authors":"Adriana Kaulino, Teresa Matus","doi":"10.1177/09593535221143595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221143595","url":null,"abstract":"Since the return to democracy in Chile in 1990, public policies for institutionalized children have progressively adopted the theory of vulnerability, with disastrous results. To expose the violence implied in the vulnerability theory, the article proposes a framework composed of the concept of epistemological violence, the theory of recognition, and the feminist psychological theory of institutional trauma to analyze and interpret public policies for children. This theoretical approach allows us to unveil how the institutional use of vulnerability has become a standardized and naturalized mechanism of violence that (re)produces the trauma the public policies seek to interrupt. In this way, we make visible a chain of failures that provoke severe traumas that drastically reduce their capacity for agency and future opportunities, especially in institutionalized girls and adolescents. The theoretical proposal contributes to future research about social politics, systems, and programs of childhood protection based on rights. We conclude by identifying some limitations and theoretical challenges.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"411 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85910313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminism & PsychologyPub Date : 2023-02-01Epub Date: 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1177/09593535221102224
Annette Brömdal, Sherree Halliwell, Tait Sanders, Kirsty A Clark, Jessica Gildersleeve, Amy B Mullens, Tania M Phillips, Joseph Debattista, Carol du Plessis, Kirstie Daken, Jaclyn M W Hughto
{"title":"Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States.","authors":"Annette Brömdal, Sherree Halliwell, Tait Sanders, Kirsty A Clark, Jessica Gildersleeve, Amy B Mullens, Tania M Phillips, Joseph Debattista, Carol du Plessis, Kirstie Daken, Jaclyn M W Hughto","doi":"10.1177/09593535221102224","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09593535221102224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as \"vulnerable populations\" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by strong cis and gender normative paradigms. This analysis seeks to better understand and appreciate how the \"instructions\" and the \"authorities\" that regulate trans women's corporeal representation, housing options and sense of self-determination implicate and affect their agency and actions in handling intimacies related to their personal life. Drawing upon lived incarcerated experiences of 24 trans women in Australia and the United States, and employing Ken Plummer's notion of <i>intimate citizenship</i>, this analysis explores how trans women navigate choices and ways \"to do\" gender, identities, bodies, emotions, desires and relationships while incarcerated in men's prisons and governed by cis and gender normative paradigms. This critical analysis contributes to understanding how incarcerated trans women through grit, resilience, and ingenuity still navigate ways to embody, express and enact their intimate citizenship in innovative and unique ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"33 1","pages":"42-64"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10139736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9400167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attending to vulnerability in sexual violence research","authors":"Rebecca Helman","doi":"10.1177/09593535221132923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221132923","url":null,"abstract":"Within research on sexual violence, womxn who have been raped are positioned as “vulnerable” participants, while researchers tend to occupy positions of “invulnerability”. Drawing on vulnerable moments from a research project which explored womxn's experiences of rape in South Africa, this paper proposes a (more) vulnerable engagement with narratives of rape. Through attending to how vulnerability is implicated in issues of silence and agency, shame, and my own failures to witness the experiences of my participants with care, I explore the epistemic and ethical possibilities of an affective approach to researching rape. This approach asks us, as researchers, to attend to the moments during our research in which we are affected, moved and disrupted.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"78 1","pages":"376 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85031207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reproductive governance and the affective economy","authors":"J. Mavuso, R. Chadwick","doi":"10.1177/09593535221106644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221106644","url":null,"abstract":"The governance of reproductive practices, processes, decision-making, experiences, desires, subjectivities, and bodies has received and continues to receive significant attention in feminist efforts to name and resist reproductive oppression. And over the last 30 years, articles published in Feminism & Psychology have made significant contributions to the visibilisation and critique of this form of oppression. In this Virtual Special Issue on Reproductive Governance and the Affective Economy, we apply repronormativity and affect to our reading of 20 articles published in Feminism & Psychology. Collectively, these articles provide a glimpse of the wide-ranging scope of reproductive regulation (including that which is re-produced by/within feminism itself), and the various work that repronormativity and affect do in this governance. The challenging of reproductive governance notwithstanding, we conclude by arguing that the centring and circulation of certain reproductive subjects and their experiences within feminist knowledge production is itself a part of and upholds repronormativity and forecloses the possibility of reproductive freedom for all.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"559 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84085410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Locke, R. Capdevila, A. Abeyasekera, Bipasha Ahmed, J. Akhurst, Lutfiye Ali, Kristin Anderson, Eleni Andreouli, Catherine Archer, Aurélie Athan, Rosemary Auchmuty, Rebecca Barnes, Bethan Benwell, Siân Beynon-Jones, Fiona Bloomer, F. Boonzaier, Marlee Bower, Kirsty Budds, E. Burman, Jane Callaghan, Christine Campbell, Hugo Canham, Justin Canty, Julia Carter, B. Catlett, F. Cavazzoni, J. Cermele, Netta Chachamu, R. Chadwick, Jane Chalmers, M. Chiweshe, Marianne Clark, J. Cole, J. Cornell, C. Corradi, S. Crabb, Kathy Davis, Stephanie Davis, Katy Day, João de Oliveira, K. Desborough, N. Dess, A. Devor, N. Donaghue, C. Donovan, S. Duncan, A. Dwyer, N. Edley, Y. Ehrstein, Rochelle Einboden, María-Alejandra Energici, A. Evans, E. Fairchild, Pani Farvid, Tracey Feltham-King, M. Fine, Yvette G. Flores, Jessica Francombe-Webb, Kathryn E Frazier, May Friedman, H. Frith, M. Gamburd, Rosalind Gill, Sarah Gillborn, Jessie Goicoechea, D. Goodley, A. Gouws, Darci Graves, A. Greene, C. Groenewald, Yasmine Hamdi Loza, T
{"title":"Thanks to guest editors, manuscript reviewers, and student presentation reviewers","authors":"A. Locke, R. Capdevila, A. Abeyasekera, Bipasha Ahmed, J. Akhurst, Lutfiye Ali, Kristin Anderson, Eleni Andreouli, Catherine Archer, Aurélie Athan, Rosemary Auchmuty, Rebecca Barnes, Bethan Benwell, Siân Beynon-Jones, Fiona Bloomer, F. Boonzaier, Marlee Bower, Kirsty Budds, E. Burman, Jane Callaghan, Christine Campbell, Hugo Canham, Justin Canty, Julia Carter, B. Catlett, F. Cavazzoni, J. Cermele, Netta Chachamu, R. Chadwick, Jane Chalmers, M. Chiweshe, Marianne Clark, J. Cole, J. Cornell, C. Corradi, S. Crabb, Kathy Davis, Stephanie Davis, Katy Day, João de Oliveira, K. Desborough, N. Dess, A. Devor, N. Donaghue, C. Donovan, S. Duncan, A. Dwyer, N. Edley, Y. Ehrstein, Rochelle Einboden, María-Alejandra Energici, A. Evans, E. Fairchild, Pani Farvid, Tracey Feltham-King, M. Fine, Yvette G. Flores, Jessica Francombe-Webb, Kathryn E Frazier, May Friedman, H. Frith, M. Gamburd, Rosalind Gill, Sarah Gillborn, Jessie Goicoechea, D. Goodley, A. Gouws, Darci Graves, A. Greene, C. Groenewald, Yasmine Hamdi Loza, T","doi":"10.1177/09593535221133576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221133576","url":null,"abstract":"Asha Abeyasekera Bipasha Ahmed Jacqueline Akhurst Lutfiye Ali Kristin Anderson Eleni Andreouli Catherine Archer Aurélie Athan Rosemary Auchmuty Rebecca Barnes Bethan Benwell Siân Beynon-Jones Fiona Bloomer Floretta Boonzaier Marlee Bower Kirsty Budds Erica Burman Jane Callaghan Christine Campbell Hugo Canham Justin Canty Julia Carter Beth Catlett Federica Cavazzoni Jill Cermele Netta Chachamu Rachelle Chadwick Jane Chalmers Malvern Chiweshe Marianne Clark Jenny Cole Josephine Cornell Consuelo Corradi Shona Crabb Kathy Davis Stephanie Davis Katy Day João de Oliveira Karen Desborough Nancy Dess Aaron Devor Ngaire Donaghue Catherine Donovan Simon Duncan Angela Dwyer Nigel Edley Yvonne Ehrstein Rochelle Einboden Reviewer List","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"348 1","pages":"597 - 599"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82584754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating feminist and biomedical conceptual frameworks in educational interventions for eating disorders: Spanish educators’ understandings of the causes and treatment of eating disorders","authors":"M. García-Ruiz, Paulo Padilla-Petry","doi":"10.1177/09593535221134173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221134173","url":null,"abstract":"The biomedical view of eating disorders (EDs) dominates in their classification and treatment regardless of the importance of sociocultural factors in EDs. Critical feminist approaches to EDs try to relate them to oppressive situations, disempowerment and the construction of gender. Educational interventions with people with EDs may be an alternative to biomedical approaches, giving them opportunities to tell their stories, listen to themselves and take control of their lives. This article presents a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with professionals who carry out educational interventions for people with EDs. Findings show that the biomedical description and treatment of EDs remain unchallenged and recognising client voice may be a problem, even in educational interventions. Also, the potential negative consequences of the rigid control of the clients’ lives seem to be ignored. Feminist approaches to EDs are acknowledged but do not seem to guide any intervention. Sociocultural critical stances that would recognise the coherence or the transitions between what is considered as healthy and sick eating also seem to be lacking.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"159 1","pages":"295 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76698621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michele A “Shelly” DeBiasse, Shannon M. Peters, Baderha Bujiriri
{"title":"Dress codes written for dietetics education programs: A Foucauldian discourse analysis","authors":"Michele A “Shelly” DeBiasse, Shannon M. Peters, Baderha Bujiriri","doi":"10.1177/09593535221126797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221126797","url":null,"abstract":"Organized in the US in 1917, dietetics emerged from the discipline of home economics as an “acceptable” area of study for women. Since its inception, dietetics has lacked diversity; most dietetics professionals identify as white, cisgender, heterosexual, middle to upper-middle-class women. In the supervised practice setting, interns are expected to dress “professionally” and follow health/safety protocols. Given the field’s history, it is reasonable to suspect that dress codes—rules/expectations regarding what employees/participants can/cannot wear—for dietetics programs may be problematic. To explore this, we conducted a discourse analysis using a Foucauldian feminist approach, drawing on the notion of governmentality. Eighty-five dietetics dress codes, supplemented with survey questions, from US-based accredited dietetics education programs were analyzed. Three primary discursive effects were identified: “Invisibilizing” informs dietetics students/interns how to be professional and modest. “Protecting” highlights dress to promote health and safety. “Normalizing” privileges conforming to thin, cisgender, white European women of higher SES. These findings show how the dress codes reify a “model” dietitian and privilege/oppress/discipline some bodies over others, supporting criticisms of dietetics dress codes as discriminatory and oppressing/privileging select societal groups. Recommendations are provided to address biases and prevent dress codes from negatively impacting diversity/inclusion in the profession.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"276 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88246518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Enraged, rattled and wronged: Entitlement’s response to social progress by Kristin J. Anderson","authors":"Nuria Martinez, J. Law","doi":"10.1177/09593535221129502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221129502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"46 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80429356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing social representations of feminism among education and engineering majors: Insights for developing feminist pedagogies","authors":"Patricia Fernández Rotaeche, Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon, Joana Jaureguizar Albóniga-Mayor","doi":"10.1177/09593535221126101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221126101","url":null,"abstract":"The present study uses Social Representation Theory to explore students’ representations of feminism with a view to informing principles for developing feminist pedagogies that can help foster egalitarian values among college students. The aim is to identify how Spanish students (n = 366) represent feminism and how these representations are shaped by participants’ gender, identification with feminism, or by studying feminized or masculinized disciplines. Students from Education (n = 192), a feminized qualification, and Engineering (n = 174), a masculinized qualification, completed a free association task using the Grid Elaboration Method to collect representations of feminism. A lexical analysis was conducted using the Reinert method. The results showed that a positive representation of feminism was the broadest (75.8%), with feminist-identified students defining feminism as a struggle for freedom. Feminist women emphasized the importance of achieving equality, and education students emphasized the importance of education in the process of women's empowerment. In contrast, 24.2% represented feminism negatively, as an extreme movement, especially engineering, non-feminist, and male students. These findings suggest that efforts aimed at developing feminist principles among students consider not only gender and feminist identification but also the context of feminized or masculinized disciplines as key spaces of gendered socialization. The study was carried out in the Basque country, Spain.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"239 1","pages":"256 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83487385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}