2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Jan 02, 2025

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 326 - Feminist Perspectives on Self, Mind, Identity and Development

Type of Course: Graduate Seminar

In this seminar, we survey several strands of feminist scholarship that address how mind, self and identity are constituted and develop in societal context. A central tenet is that gender, as a social formation intersecting with others, such as race and class, structures the social and cultural order both discursively and materially; psychological functioning and development are considered within that systemic framework. Feminist theories vary in particular in how they address the role of practice, discourse, social power relations and individual agency in the development of self, mind and identity; how they address the intersectional nature of social locations; and how they address the postmodern issues regarding the notion of a bounded, unified self. The seminar covers contrasting perspectives on these issues. Readings are structured so as to ground psychological theory and research within interdisciplinary analyses of societal processes. The aim of the seminar is to provide theoretical and methodological resources applicable toward conducting feminist research on mind, self and identity with a psychological grain of analysis, grounded in a broad societal frame of interpretation.

Prerequisites: Instructor’s permission.

Instructor: Ms. Falmagne

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology