Feminism & Psychology最新文献

In this collaborative commentary, four PhD students in a feminist psychology research lab present a student-focused perspective on the importance of feminist mentorship within academia. We define feminist mentorship as inclusive, intersectional, and responsive to our differing backgrounds and experiences. Feminist mentoring aims to deconstruct traditional understandings of power in academic spaces. Feminist mentorship has profoundly shaped our educational journeys and feminist identities, highlighting the crucial role of diverse mentorship from the start of a student's academic career. Essential for graduate student success in competitive and often isolating academic environments, feminist mentors support emerging feminists, advocate students' interests, and empower them to advocate for themselves. Having laid the foundation for inclusive and dynamic feminist mentorship, we look ahead to future challenges and opportunities for students and mentors. Drawing from our experiences, we offer recommendations on how to best support emerging feminist scholars. This involves connecting with other feminists for networking and collaboration, actively seeking funding opportunities, and providing support and guidance for community-based advocacy. Our collective perspective highlights the essential role of feminist mentoring. We advocate a continued focus on enhancing and prioritizing feminist mentorship in academia and acknowledging its significant influence on the growth of empowered scholars.

#GentleParenting presents a novel trend in networked parenting communities. Its rise correlates with the COVID-19 pandemic, during which parents' access to medical professionals decreased significantly. In this vacuum, a group of lay parenting experts arose and continues to gain influence. Through a mixed-method study that combines critical discourse analysis and contextual visual discourse analysis, this article analyzes a dataset and sample of posts compiled from TikTok and Instagram. My findings suggest that an epochal shift in parenting culture is taking place, involving a break with some of the fundamental tenets of the previously dominant parenting trend of intensive mothering. Informed by feminist critiques, my analysis of #GentleParenting explicates a concept I call the "fifth shift" to describe the additional burdens involved in online parenting. While #GentleParenting can be understood as positive in its efforts to allow parents to regain control over childrearing, it also poses some challenges, including its propagation of wealthy, White feminist presentations in digital networks, as well as its insistence on adding additional parenting labor. While empathy is resonant in #GentleParenting via satire, questions remain regarding the political effects of this community.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric condition, especially stigmatized in women. Stigma is a social injustice, as it discredits and reduces the wholeness of a person to one of taint and discount. Psychological scientists play a uniquely powerful role in the stigmatization and destigmatization of BPD by constructing the meaning of BPD at each step of the research process. We discuss this powerful role and how to destigmatize BPD by incorporating an intersectionality framework that includes disability as a category of difference (as with gender, race, and sexuality). This framework centers the role of systems and structures in creating and maintaining stigma, while emphasizing the close interactions between interpersonal and structural stigma. This article illustrates researchers' power to assign meaning to BPD in research and highlights the importance of considering individuals as embedded in intersectional social categories, which are multidimensional and dynamic in nature. We propose that intersectional cultural humility, with its social justice aim and feminist origins, can guide BPD researchers to conduct nonstigmatizing and rigorous research on BPD. To inform clinical practice and advance social justice, we offer action steps for researchers to destigmatize BPD with intersectional cultural humility at multiple steps in the research process.