Theory & Psychology; Guest-Editors: Emelie Rack, Nora Ruck & Julia Struppe-Schanda (Sigmund Freud Univ. Vienna), Charlotta Sippel (Sigmund Freud Univ. Berlin) (PDF)

Proposals by: 28.02.2025

Throughout history, a complex and often contentious interplay has existed between feminist theory, practice, and movements. Feminist academics have repeatedly demonstrated how practice influenced their psychological theory building and vice versa, thus challenging the often stark division between theory and practice. Alongside other scholars, we argue that feminist theory in psychology is connected with everyday experiences in a variety of ways. Consequently, the ways in which forms of theorizing and theory building link to action, practice, critical reflection and/ or lived experience is itself a question worth examining. Despite the vast depth and breadth of feminist research, feminist perspectives struggle to get recognized beyond the margins of the psychological discipline. All the while, some claim that feminist theory in psychology aspires to nothing less than to contribute to feminist scholarship as a vehicle for achieving social justice. But how can the often ambivalent and contradictory relation between theory and practice as a feminist concern be bridged?
The editorsbelieve that to pursue this question, diverse feminist perspectives across a range of contexts and disciplines are necessary. They therefore, invites submissions, that critically examine the dynamic and complex relation between feminist-psychological theory and practice, such as, but not limited to:

• Meta-contributions on the relationship between feminist theory and practice: What are ways to theorize the relationship between theory and practice? How can and must the relationship between theory and practice be problematized? How is practice informed by theoretical knowledge? How are theories enriched through practice?
• Critical readings of concepts/theories and exploring the limits of psychological theory: What are the potentials and limitations of theory? What is currently missing in feminist-psychological theory? How can different feminist-psychological theories be brought together? How can new approaches to feminist-psychological theory be developed?
• Questions of power, accessibility, exclusions, and inclusions of feminist theory work: What is considered as a psychological theory and why? How can the entanglement of (feminist) theory in epistemic relations of violence be dealt with? How can a variety of feminist perspectives within feminist-psychological theories be ensured? How can theory work be made (more) accessible? Read more … (PDF)

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