Feminism and/in/as Psychology

The articles in this special issue help build a history of the relationship between feminism and psychology.

Feminism and psychology captures the tensions between a political movement and a scientific discipline. It encompasses the history of both feminist critiques of the heterosexist and androcentric assumptions made by psychologists and attempts by scientists to problematize feminist activism. It scrutinizes why the distinction between the two was so salient for certain historical actors while also charting seepages across these domains.

Feminism in psychology points to those historical moments when self-identified feminists entered into psychology to alter its favored topics, populations, and research designs. Often understood as a uniquely post-1970s phenomenon, the articles here offer a more complex picture going back to late 19th-century feminism.

Feminism as psychology/psychology as feminism explores what some commentators see as the special affinities between psychology and feminism.