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Deconstructing the Patriarchal Myth
No full textThis paper attempts to deconstruct the idea that patriarchy is the cause of women's oppression, arguing for a more nuanced exploration of the developmental processes that contribute to gender identity. In particular, social processes that serve to distort normal affectional development in boys is explored, relating these to the masculine qualities that are held up in society as the norm for both genders, despite their being anathema to what psychology regards as healthy. This bias tends to delegitimise feminine characteristics and place women in a mental double-bind. Instead, this paper argues for the validity of the feminine, and questions absolutist feminist discourses which fail to account for broader systemic factors in the construction of gender
The Experiences of Divorced Mothers as Single Parents
No full textThis study explores divorced mothers' experiences of single-parenting through in-depth interviews with 5 volunteer divorced mothers drawn from the client base of the Chatsworth Child and Family Welfare Society. These single-parents are Indian, and divorced with custody of their children. The duration of single-parenthood ranges between 1 and 5 years. A discourse analysis reveals that interviewees' discursive constructions of what it means to be a single-parent are framed within the themes of transition and continuity. The tensions and contradictions between these competing themes play themselves out in terms of the interpretative repertoires of (i) demands and responsibility; (ii) self-nurturance I self-actualisation; and (iii) legitimation of single-parent status
The political economy of psychology: Parker, I & Spears, R (eds) (1996) Psychology and society: Radical theory and practice. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0-7453-0879-1 pbk. 248 pages.
No full textThat Marxism has lost something of its lustre as an academic brand name is illustrated once again by this collection of articles on psychology and society, the original title of which, Psychology and Marxism, had to be withdrawn for marketing reasons. The trouble, as Hayes reminds us in his chapter on "The psychology of everyday life", is that even though Marxism proved itself to have considerable explanatory capacity as a theory of the capitalist west, it offered few tools for critiquing the various forms of crude totalitarianism which were perpetrated in its name, and was therefore discredited along with the regimes which claimed to draw inspiration from its tenets. Ironically, however, the collapse of communism could now breathe new life into Marxist theory, relieved of the burden of having to defend the indefensible, and thus able to focus more clearly on its continuing critique of the capitalist world order. Psychology and society may be one of the early indications of such a Marxist renaissance
Essential psychology? Coleman, AM (ed) (1995) Longman Essential Psychology. London: Longman. 12 volumes.
No full textAt last, a textbook with a different look! My shelves are crowded with complimentary copies of introductory texts, all American, each more glossy than the last and between their large, hard-covers, simply more of the same. The Longman Essential Psychology series appears enticingly different: twelve very short (approximately 100 pages) volumes in bright, soft-covers and inside, surprisingly, text - the written stuff rather than diagram after diagram and a plethora of full colour photographs. The separate binding of each volume allows for the purchase of just that "part• of the discipline which interests. This is a big plus in that very often a prescribed text contains much which is of no direct relevance to a course
Editorial
No full textUnfortunately, we start this issue of PINS with a comment about the irrational. Not the irrational as that uncanny object of psychoanalytic discourse, but the irrational as seemingly rational public discourse. The public discourse of educational policy and the control of knowledge as embodied in the SAPSE system is what is being referred to. In the editorial of PINS 17 (1993), we mentioned that PINS was first turned down for SAPSE accreditation during 1992 for the following reason: "Not a research journal. Articles are mostly for the practitioner eg case studies, general review on a specific field of knowledge, etc". The procedure for accreditation is that academics, or university research offices on academics’ behalf, make submissions to the State Department of Education for the inclusion of any journal/s onto the SAPSE subsidy list. Journals themselves may not apply directly. The success or failure of accreditation is communicated to the universities, and again, not to the journal/s
A useful guide to research: Garbers, J G (ed) (1996) Effective research in the human sciences. Pretoria: J L van Schaik Publishers. ISBN 0-627-02165-4. 438 pages.
No full textEffective research in the human sciences is designed to provide researchers, supervisors, and masters and doctoral students with practical guidelines that can be used to manage research programmes. The emphasis of the text is on the management of masters and doctoral training and research, with the general objective being lo augment or to supplement the conventional training in research methodology received by students in the human sciences
After The War Is Over, Truth and Reconciliation?: Impressions and Reflections
No full textSeven months after the collapse of Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders and officials opened. In 1993, one of the first Acts of the South African transitional government set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It was charged by the Act to provide for the investigation and establishment of as complete a picture as possible of all gross violations of human rights committed during the period March 1960 to December 1993, and emanating from the conflicts of the past. Both the TRC and the Nuremberg tribunals were concerned with crimes against humanity. Both, implicitly, faced the problems of bringing sanity to insane societies, by enabling a reluctant society to face its past. In this article, I consider some of the emotional and social issues that I believe are still unsettled and that influence social and individual life in South Africa. Some of these issues are symbolised by the relationships seen in the workings of the TRC, in which such problems as unmasking myths, mourning and ending relationships often influenced what was going on at the hearings, just as they do in wider social life
Past imperfect: Hamber, B (ed) (1998) Past imperfect: Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and societies in transition. Londonderry: INCORE & University of Ulster. ISBN 0-9533305-4-0 pbk.
No full textPast imperfect is based on a conference hosted by the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 1998, and gathers together chapters on managing historical conflict in South Africa, Guatemala and Northern Ireland. It explores the painful complexity, diversity and necessity of remembering and truth recovery in societies with violent pasts, and helps to establish a shift in understanding social conflict as an ineradicable opposition between two sides toward understanding it as an opportunity for constructive engagement
