Liberating Minds: Consciousness-Raising as a Bridge between Feminism and Psychology in 1970s Canada (2015)
Ruck, Nora (Author)
History of Psychology
Volume: 18, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 297-311
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Feminism and/in/as Psychology
Language: English
This article examines the interrelations between psychology and feminism in the work of feminist psychologists and radical feminists in Toronto in the early 1970s. For Canadian feminist psychology as well as for second-wave activism, Toronto was a particular hotspot. It was the academic home of some of the first Canadian feminist psychologists, and was the site of a lively scene of feminists working in established women's organizations along with younger socialist and radical feminists. This article analyzes the interrelations of academic feminist psychology and feminist activism by focusing on consciousness-raising, a practice that promised to bridge tensions between the personal and the political, psychological and social liberation, everyday knowledge and institutionalized knowledge production, theory and practice, as well as the women's movement and other spheres of women's lives.
...MoreArticle Rutherford, Alexandra; Pettit, Michael (2015) Feminism and/in/as Psychology: The Public Sciences of Sex and Gender. History of Psychology (pp. 223-237).
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