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Index
abuse, sexual, 38, 39, 147
accountability, 62, 106
accountability management, 84, 106
ADHD (attention decit/hyperactivity
disorder), 142
agenda, power over, 24
A
lund, Aleksandra, 13
androcentrism, 2, 32
anorexia nervosa, 119, 120, 124
appropriation, 36, 78, 90, 107
assumptions, common (sensitizing
concepts), 68
asymmetries, gendered, 40
Bamberg, Michael, 53, 96, 189, 204
basic and applied research, 3
Becker, Anne, 127
Becker, Dana, 132, 135, 149
Becker, Howard, 45
Berger, Peter, 27
Billig, Michael, 51, 72, 73, 74, 78,
79, 190
bisexuality, 17
bodily practices, and ethnicity, 95
body ethics, 127
body size, 124
body size, preoccupation with, 119, 123
body talk, 128
Bohan, Janis, 16, 28, 68, 76, 81, 161, 164,
180, 181, 190, 211
borderline personality disorder, 132
Bordo, Susan, 121, 122, 190
boundaries, womens personal,
103, 107
boundary patterns, gendered, 103, 107
boundary violations in psychotherapy, 152
Bruner, Jerome, 21, 22, 23, 46, 47,
191, 207
Buitelaar, Marjo, 18, 41, 42, 191
bulimia nervosa, 119, 120
Butler, Judith, 10, 12, 34, 35, 163, 191
bystander behavior, 184
categories, analytical, 60
categories, and normativity, 83
categories, contingent, 10
categories, human, 11
categories, interactive, 11, 132, 142
categories, natural, 10
categories, social, 18, 41
categorization, 41
categorization, social, 10
causal relationships, 50
causeeffect relations, 174
Chafn, Roger, 172
Cherry, Frances, 183, 184, 192
child psychology, heterosexual
templates, 87
child psychology, transactional models, 88
child psychology, universalizing
theories, 87
child rearing, cultural patterns in, 86
circumcision, female, 56
class injustices, 149
coercion, heterosexual, 27, 109,
112, 117
coercion, heterosexual, social technologies
of, 110
coercive power, 23
Connell, R. W., 35, 76, 192
consciousness-raising, 147
conversation, 70, 84
conversation analysis, 71
conversations, externalizing, 157
conversations, positioning in, 48
conversations, rhetorical strategies
in, 106
couple interviews, 100, 106
Crawford, Mary, 28, 32, 53, 172, 173,
174, 184, 193, 198, 203, 207
critical discursive psychology, 74, 82
critical psychology, 72, 179, 185
critical race research, 180
cultural psychology, 22
culture, as webs of meaning, 20
219
Danziger, Kurt, 46, 162, 181, 193
decisions, entitlement to make, 24
depression, 60, 132, 137, 139,
142, 143
depression, cultural differences, 135
DeVault, Marjorie, 58, 194
developmental psychology, critique of
developmentalism, 86
diagnostic and disease language, in
everyday talk, 143
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM), 134,
136, 142
diagnostic category systems, 132,
134, 138
Diamond, Lisa, 48, 66, 67, 114, 194
differences between women and men, 159
differences between women and men,
research, 162
disciplinary power, 104
disciplinary reexivity, 179
disciplinary reexivity, as quality assurance,
180
discourse, 70
discourse, dominant, 114
discourse analysis, 90
discourses, 71
discourses, dominant, 150, 156
discourses, marginalized, 156
discursive psychology, 29, 72
discursive psychology, methods, 78
doing gender, 34, 99
dominant discourse, 114
downward drift, 15
eating disorders, 119, 120, 129
eating disorders, background factors, 126
eating disorders, ethnic minorities,
126, 127
eating disorders, feminist views of,
119, 121
eating disorders, medical model of, 119,
123, 130
eating disorders, social relations,
124, 130
eating disorders, treatment of,
121, 129
Edley, Nigel, 35, 36, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 96,
195, 217
Edwards, Derek, 49, 50, 71, 72, 84, 85,
190, 195
effect size, 165
epistemological reexivity, 66
epistemology, 4, 66
essentialism, 10
ethics of resistance, 153, 155
ethnic inequality, 149
ethnicity, 12, 126
ethnicity research, 13
ethnication, 13, 94
ethnomethodology, 27, 71
everyday life, 21, 74
everyday life, culturally gendered
meanings, 66
everyday life, institutionalized
forms of, 21
everyday talk, 74
evolutionary psychology, 176
evolutionary theory, 160
experimental subjects, students as, 3
experiments, psychological, 49
explanations, causal, 50
explanations, reasons, 50
explanations, universalist, 31
externalizing conversations, 156
factors-and-variables research, 49
family life, heterosexual, 99
family life, heterosexual, organization of,
100
family therapy, 148
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 10, 12, 16, 30, 163,
175, 176, 195
female nature, 4
femininity, 35, 37, 75, 107, 146
femininity, complementary, 107, 117
femininity, cultural codes for, 92, 94
femininity, Freuds views of, 146
femininity, normative, 130
feminist discursive psychology, 75, 76,
99, 109
feminist psychology, 3, 75
feminist theory, 27, 28
Ferree, Myra Marx, 14
Fine, Michelle, 13, 141, 175, 196, 208
Fitts, Mako, 127
Fleck, Ludwik, 49, 182, 196
follow-up questions, 55, 60
Foucault, Michel, 24
freedom of movement, 41
freedom of movement, gendered, 58, 103,
104
Friedan, Betty, 146, 197
Gavey, Nicola, 15, 18, 26, 38, 40, 56, 77,
82, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116,
117, 118, 197
Geertz, Clifford, 20, 21, 45, 198
gender, 11, 34, 86
220 Index
gender, and language, 42, 76
gender equality ideology, 79, 98, 105
gender inequality, 56, 174
gender order, 36
gender order, external asymmetrical, 41
gender research/gender studies, 186
gender studies, 2
gender studies as multidisciplinary
research, 5
generalizability, 67, 170, 182
generalization in interpretative
research, 68
generalizing from research
data, 118, 182
Gergen, Kenneth, 28
Granek, Leeat, 123
Greene, Sheila, 87
Grills, Scott, 174
group inequalities, 173
Guilfoyle, Michael, 155
Gulbrandsen, Liv Mette, 86, 88, 93
Haavind, Hanne, 21, 37, 51, 68, 88, 89,
100, 188, 200, 205
Hacking, Ian, 10, 11, 28, 135, 142, 143,
182, 200
Hare-Mustin, Rachel, 28, 32, 35,
40, 41, 72, 76, 132, 142, 146,
149, 150, 151, 153, 155, 170,
174, 201, 207
Hauge, Mona-Iren, 94
have/hold discourse, 115
heterofemininity, 95
heteronormativity, 17, 91, 94
heterosexism, 126
heterosexual relations, asymmetrical
patterns in, 116
heterosexuality, 17, 71, 91
heterosexuality, discourses about, 115
heterosexuality, male, 96, 115, 116
heterosexuality, normal, 111, 115
heterosexualization, 95
higher education, women in, 168, 181
historical truth, 57
history of science, 179
Holland, Janet, 115
Hollway, Wendy, 71, 115, 116,
117, 202
homosexuality, 17, 137
Hook, Derek, 143
housework in heterosexual couples,
distribution of, 101, 106
Hyde, Janet Shibley, 165, 167,
169, 170
hysteria, 132
identity, and narrative, 42
identity, and power, 25
identity, in discursive psychology,
75, 77
identity, intersectional view of, 42
identity, the stickiness of identity, 77
identity and family life, description of
study, 99
identity development, and context, 86
identity development, boys, studies
of, 95
identity development, Norwegian study
of girls, 88
ideological dilemma, 78
ideological power, 24, 40
ideology, 24, 40, 66, 75
ideology, lived, 78
idioms of distress, 139
individual, and social systems/culture, 22
individual, view of in discursive
psychology, 77
individualism, liberal, 79
inequality, and sex category, 75
International Statistical Classication of
Diseases and Related Health
Problems (ICD), 134
interpretation, in research, 44, 49, 60
interpretative repertoires, 80,
104, 106
interpretative research, 44, 52
interpretative research, about
families, 100
interpretative research, about
psychological development, 88
interpretative research, about sexual
coercion, 109
interpretative research, credibility of
results, 67
interpretative research, ethical
issues, 62
interpretative research, history, 46
interpretative research, selection of
participants, 58
intersectionality, 18
intersectionality, and gender issues, 41
interview, 53, 55, 89
interview, importance of the researchers
background, 65
interview, problems in interviewing, 57
interview, questions in, 55
interviewing, in interpretative research,
53, 57
Jordan-Young, Rebecca, 16, 49, 160, 169,
174, 175, 203
Index 221
Kaschak, Ellyn, 103
knowledge, and power (see power/
knowledge), 26
knowledge, perspectival, 48
knowledge, privileged types of, 25
Korobov, Neill, 53, 96, 204
Lafrance, Michelle, 60
Lamb, Sharon, 39
language, and cultural patterns, 74
language, and language practices, 42
language, and sex category, 42
language, as action, 72, 76
language, biomedical, 133, 135
language, childrens acquisition of, 42
language, everyday, 76
language, everyday, interpretation of, 45
language, gendered dimensions of,
42, 76
language, in psychiatry, 132
language, social function of, 47
life mode interview, 89
limits, womens personal, 103, 107
linguistic patterns, gendered, 76
listeners, 47
Luckmann, Thomas, 27
Lukes, Steven, 24, 39, 40, 205
masculinity, 35, 37, 75, 107
masculinity, conventional, 84, 107
mastery, 36, 78, 90, 107
math genes, 172
mathematics performance, sex differences/
similarities, 167
Mattingly, Cheryl, 19
McKenzie-Mohr, Suzanne, 60
meaning, and culture, 19, 71
meaning-making, 21, 22, 50, 60
meaning-making, and local
interaction, 48
meaning-making, cultural, 48
meaning-making, individual, 44, 47
meta-analysis, 164
methodological reexivity, 65
Miles, Robert, 13
mindbody dualism, 122
models of psychiatric conditions, 132
Morawski, Jill, 14, 41, 46, 181,
203, 208
mothers paid work, 3
narrative, 22
narrative position, 42
narrative therapy, 26, 147, 156
narrative therapy, feminist, 156
narrative truth, 57
narratives, 106
natural kinds, 10
neutrality, impossibility of knowers, 64
normality, assessment of, 137, 140
normality, psychiatrys power to dene,
147
normalization, 155
nymphomania, 132, 137
obesity, 119
Obeyesekere, Gananath, 135, 137, 209
objectivity, 3, 49, 65
objectivity in research, 27, 48, 64
ordinariness, shared, 21
parental leave, 98, 102
parenthood, cultural patterns in, 86
participants in research, selection of, 32,
59, 182
penalties, social, 33, 124
personal order, 78
personal reexivity, 65
political activism, 3
positioning, active, 42, 82
post-structuralism, 27
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
135, 142
Potter, Jonathan, 27, 61, 62, 72, 76, 80, 81,
83, 84, 85, 195, 209, 217
poverty, 126
power, disciplinary, 26
power, gendered, 38, 157
power, ideological, 24, 40
power, legitimate, 23
power, linguistic avoidance, strategies
of, 39
power, over language, 76
power, productive, 83
power, totalizing, 25
power owner, 23
power relations, 23
power/knowledge, 115
preconceptions, researchers, 4,
49, 183
pre-reective understandings, 183, 184,
185
Prins, Baukje, 18
productive power, 104
Prus, Robert, 174
psychiatric conditions often diagnosed in
women, 132
psychiatric diagnoses, 132, 134, 142
psychiatric diagnoses, as social
categorizations, 131, 132
222 Index
psychiatric diagnoses, as social
control, 142, 143
psychiatric diagnoses, criticism of,
143, 144
psychiatric diagnoses, cultural
interpretations of, 140, 141
psychiatric diagnoses, gendered meanings,
140
psychiatric diagnoses, inuence of
diagnosticians background, 140
psychiatric diagnoses, political aspects of,
132
psychiatric diagnoses, power dimensions
of, 131
psychic suffering, and sociocultural
context, 138, 140, 144
psychoanalysis, feminist, 146
psychodynamic theory, 133
psychological assessment, contextual
model, 151
psychological research, knowledge claims,
182
psychological research, methods, 44
psychological suffering (mental disorder,
psychiatric condition), 119, 131
psychological suffering, and criminality,
143
psychological suffering, culture-specic
expressions, 140
psychological suffering, gendered
expressions, 140
psychological suffering, relation to
normality, 136
psychology, and social justice, 185
psychology, cultural, 34
psychology, discursive, 29
psychology, early, 161
psychology, interpretative, 44, 49
psychology, social relations within the
discipline, 180
psychotherapy, 39, 145
psychotherapy, and institutional structures,
150, 154
psychotherapy, and social control, 154
psychotherapy, cultural ideology,
150, 156
psychotherapy, ethical guidelines, 148,
149, 152
psychotherapy, feminist, 147, 148
psychotherapy, feminist critique
of, 146
psychotherapy, gendered power in,
150, 152
psychotherapy clients, sexual abuse
of, 152
qualitative content analysis, 90
qualitative methods, 44
quantitative research methods, 46
queer feminism, 16
queer theory, 16, 17
questions, direct, 56
questions, in narrative therapy, 157
Quinn, Naomi, 48, 53, 210
race, 12
racialization, 13
racism, 27
ranking of knowledge, 181
rape, 38, 109, 112, 115, 117, 141
rape victims, unacknowledged, 56
reductionism, 176
reection, in narrative therapy, 157
reexivity, 64
reexivity, disciplinary, 179
reexivity, in research, 49, 179
Remer, Pamela, 148
re-presentation, 27
research, and political activism,
3, 185
research, class-specic, 64, 183
research, emancipatory, 41
research, place-specic, 183
research participants, narrow
selection, 182
research questions, choice of, 4, 179
research questions, inuence of social
processes, 182, 183
research results, visible interpretation
process, 68
researchers, social position of, 4
rewards, inequalities in, 40
rewards, social, 33, 124
rhetoric, 106
rhetorical psychology, 73
rhetorical techniques, 85
Richards, Graham, 5, 14, 46, 160, 176,
177, 179, 180, 210
Robinson, Daniel, 31, 162, 176, 177,
180, 182, 186, 210
Rogoff, Barbara, 20, 87
Rose, Nikolas, 26
Rossiter, Amy, 154, 155, 211
Rubin, Lisa, 127
schizophrenia, 139
school achievement, sex differences/
similarities, 168
scientic article, reviews of, 180
scientic reduction, 175
self-presentation, 83, 93, 94
Index 223
self-regulation, 82
self-representation, 127
self-surveillance, 26, 154
self-understanding, 48, 179
sex categories, 10, 11, 16
sex categorization, 35, 38
sex category ascription, 86
sex category ascription, and power, 38
sex category ascription, and social
patterns, 99
sex category ascription, meaning
of, 104
sex-difference discourses, 75
sex-difference research, 162, 164
sex-difference research, biological
explanations, 175
sex-difference research, debates, 169
sex-difference research, interpretation of
results, 174
sex-difference research, political uses of,
174
sex differences, 159
sex differences/similarities, 79
sex differences/similarities, and context,
166, 172
sex differences/similarities, arguments from
evolutionary theory, 169
sex differences/similarities, ideologies
about, 41
sex discrimination, 169, 181
sex education, 63
sex role/gender role, traditional, 105
sex/gender, 34, 41 (see also sex categories,
sex category ascription)
sex/gender stereotypes, 3, 30, 33,
170, 171
sexism, 24
sexual abuse, 126, 147
sexual harassment, 126
sexual identity, womens development
of, 66
sexual relations, same-sex, 16, 17
sexuality, and heteronormativity, 96
sexuality, and power relations, 115
sexuality, female, 18, 116, 137
sexuality, male, 16
sexuality, psychiatric diagnoses related to,
137
Shields, Stephanie, 18
situational factors, 32
Smith, Roger, 30, 45, 74, 76, 175, 177,
212, 213
snowball recruitment (chain referral
method), 59
social class, 14
social class, and mental health, 15
social class, in psychology, 14
social constructionism, 28, 72
social injustices, 173
social interaction in the research
situation, 49
social justice, 3, 148, 185
social order, 78
socialization, 11
socialization, gender-biased, 170
sociology of science, 179
speak-out, 109
speak-outs, 38
speech situation, feedback in, 47
subject, 25
subject position, and bodily
practices, 94
subject positions, 81
subject positions, troubled or
untroubled, 82
subjectication, 83
subjectivity, 25, 42, 77, 83
symptom criteria, 134, 142
symptom vocabularies, 139
taboo areas, questions about, 55
talk (speech), rich in interviews, 54
talk, unstructured, 51
therapeutic relationship, 151
therapeutic relationship, feminist view of,
150
therapeutic relationship, power in, 156
therapeutic relationships, feminist view of,
155
therapeutic relationships, institutionalized
hierarchy in, 154
therapeutic relationships,
power in, 150, 155
therapy contract, 151
therapy conversations, discourses in, 155
therapy relationships, power in, 150
Theravada Buddhism, 137
Thompson, Becky Wangsgaard, 125
Tiefer, Leonore, 15, 17, 114,
137, 215
transcription of conversations, 68, 71
truth claims, of theories, 179
two-sex model, 10, 15, 16, 163
unsayable experiences, 58
validity, 62
validity, empirical, 27, 30
value hierarchies, gendered, 76
violence, heterosexual, 39, 138, 141
224 Index
Weatherall, Ann, 77
West, Candace, 34
Wetherell, Margaret, 26, 29, 35, 36, 61,
62, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82,
83, 94, 96, 108, 194, 195, 203, 210,
212, 216, 217
White, Michael, 26, 27, 56, 87, 149,
156, 157, 160, 197, 205, 207, 208,
209, 217
Wilkinson, Sue, 5, 49, 64, 179, 217
Willig, Carla, 64
womens movement, 2, 38, 109, 147, 150
womens movement, early, 160
Worell, Judith, 148
Young, Allan, 135
Zimmerman, Don, 34
Index 225