Thompson, L, Turley, E, Beetham, T, Donnelly, L C, Lazard, L, Bassra, S, Castellino, C, Christie, D, Cole, J, Hubbard, K, Hutchinson, R, Jia, X, Keating, G, Lobban, Rosemary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7680-8514, Luo, T, Mishra, A, Moore, N and Smith, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6459-0084 (2023) Doing feminisms on the ground: challenges and opportunities for critical feminist psychologies. Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review, 6 (1). pp. 5-19. ISSN 2976-8799 (Print), 2517-4932 (Online) (doi:10.53841/bpspowe.2023.6.1.5)

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Abstract

Feminist psychological perspectives remain peripheral in mainstream psychological spaces and broader applied settings. This can make it difficult to do feminist psychological work. In this article, we discuss key challenges facing a group of feminist psychologists working in various specialist areas of theory and practice. The discussion was generated from a roundtable session facilitated by the authors at the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Annual Conference in July, 2022 in response to the conference theme of ‘Doing feminism on the ground’. The roundtable aimed to create space for participants to discuss the challenges of doing feminist work. The roundtable also aimed to generate shared strategies for resisting these challenges. Here, we were guided by Sara Ahmed’s call to ‘stay with the difficulty’ of feminist work in order to learn from this. Challenges included professional exclusion, isolation, epistemic erasure, and self-censorship. Strategies included ‘rewriting the questions’, refusing to engage with over-simplistic requests, and (re)centering power and its implications. Roundtable participants are listed as participant authors, and their words co construct and flow through this account. This article therefore presents a collaborative account of the challenges and opportunities facing this group in their efforts to do feminisms on the ground.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feminist practice; collaboration; epistemic exclusion; co-construction; resistance
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
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Last Modified:	08 Dec 2023 17:09
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42494

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