-
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Psychological Research
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 2003
- pp. 85-112
- Article
- Additional Information
Drawing primarily from the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, the author suggests that a postmodern approach to identity can be used to challenge the essentialism that pervades both feminist empiricism and standpoint theory, and thus move feminist psychology in a more emancipatory direction. A major premise of this paper is that an engagement with postmodernism redirects our attention to symbolic constructions of femininity and to the sociopolitical grounding of experience.