Feminism Vs Community Psychology

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In the late 1960s community psychology was beginning to emerge and became acknowledged, this was also in parallel to the ‘second surge’ of feminism within the western world. Throughout the years feminism broadened and different aspects of feminism occurred, these all consisted of a range of views which all aim towards improving women’s standards of life. Personally from going to an all girls school from year 7 until 11, and a mixed education school for sixth form I have experienced how gender identity is so prominent within the education system of modern United Kingdom, such as how females are treated and act when surrounded by females and then when in company of males.
Gender has been a debated topic for many years and is an ever changing, …show more content…

Such as the androcentric viewpoint that the majority of researchers had, which lead to their ideas conflicting mainstream psychology. Whilst the broader communities within psychology and feminism stood up for human rights movements such as civil rights and liberation. To further enhance my earlier point (Cohen & Gutek, 1991; Mulvey, 1988; Oliver & Hamerton, 1992) have all seen the overwhelming statistic of men teaching and controlling community psychology research, whilst it is females who are more likely to be conduct the research aswell as being psychology …show more content…

So men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.’ However biologically it has been proven that brain size does not affect intellect, although a radical feminist believes that the source of inequality is biological differences, such as giving birth, (Firestone, 1971). Is the historical view still prevalent? Although many still think that sexism is a thing of the past, within community and the media related society we live in today, language is still a debatable topic. With phrases still used as an insult such as doing something ‘like a girl’ Lauren Greenfield (2014) described terms like this as ‘disempowering’. Radical feminism explores interpersonal relationships with men and women that used to be private can now be seen in wider society. Walby 1990?) points out that women are free to be exploited in wider society. Also that government policies, like the Sex Discrimination act (1975) are too feeble, and push women into domestic

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