Imagined Conversations Assignment -

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Assignment - Imagined Conversations: Women Past and Feminist Presence

The purpose of this assignment is to have you familiarize yourself more deeply with women in psychology/gender issues in psychology and to develop the ability to historically contextualize the experiences and contributions of psychologists.

For this assignment, you will be required to write an imagined conversation between a psychologist you select from the Women Past section of the Psychology's Feminist Voices website (http://www.feministvoices.com), and a psychologist you select from the Feminist
Presence part of the site. You are free to pick any two psychologists, but you must have a rationale for the pairing - that is, why would these two psychologists be interesting to put "in conversation"?

Possible rationales for pairing include similarities or differences with respect to social location, research topic, methodological orientation, political values, etc.

You should read all of the material about each psychologist that is available at their respective profile pages, and any other secondary literature that you think is necessary for constructing this imagined conversation. Note that there are extensive lists of secondary sources that you could consult at the Resources link on both Women Past and Feminist Presence homepages. Note also that your textbook chapter on the science and politics of gender (Chapter 11) would also be a good source for background information, and there is a 40-minute video at the site entitled The Changing Face of Feminist Psychology that you can also consult.

Preface your conversation with a brief introduction in which you 1) identify and describe your two speakers (where and when do/did they work, in what area of psychology, on what topics), and 2) present the rationale for your pairing. Your elaboration of these two points should take up about one page.

Then, assume that the two speakers are located in their own historical period and place but can communicate across time. What would they each like to know about the other's experiences? What has changed in psychology, what has remained the same? Have they faced similar or different challenges and why? What observations might each have of the other's career and their specific lines of research or practice? Make sure the conversation is bi-directional (that information flows both ways) and is historically and contextually accurate.

Psychology's Feminist Voices Scavenger Hunt: Women Past

Discover the answers to these questions using the Women Past section of the Psychology's Feminist Voices website (www.feministvoices.com). This assignment will familiarize you with the website and the women of psychology's past.

• On whose profile is there a photograph of that individual climbing a tree?

• Who described her recruitment of subjects in one of her studies as follows: "I located subjects by driving around looking for diapers drying on clotheslines"?

• Who challenged the dominant notion of the 1930s that psychoanalysts required a medical degree?

• What Russian-born psychologist became a psychological evaluator of men deemed suitable for intelligence (spy) work during WWII in the United States?

• What developmental psychologist is best known for her work on the Berkeley Growth Study, and for demonstrating that over the course of a child's development, height is most closely correlated with head circumference?

• Which psychologist's first name differs from that of her husband by only one letter?

• Who was the first woman to become a member of the Gesellschaft für die experimentelle Psychologie (the German Society for Experimental Psychology)?

• Who was the first female psychologist to have a United States postage stamp issued in her honor?

• Which early psychologist published observations of her niece's development?

• Who developed the concept of "womb envy" as an alternative to the Freudian concept of penis envy?

• Who was the first woman to lead the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society?

• Who collaborated with E. G. Boring on three studies of the status of women in American psychology?

• Who was the first African American psychologist to be licensed in Virginia?

• Who was the first female president of the Canadian Psychological Association?

• Which psychologist's scientific work (conducted with her husband) on black children's self- perception influenced the Supreme Court's decision in the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka Case?

• Which psychologist is best known for the "visual cliff" experiment?

• Who was the first woman in the United States to head a psychology department at a state university?

• Which psychologists wrote about cultural bias in testing children in Yucatan, Mexico such as the Minnesota Preschool Tests with Mayan children in 1939?

• Which psychologist was prevented from attending prominent social psychologist William McDougall's seminars at Harvard on the grounds that she was a woman?

• Which psychologist was named the most prominent living woman in psychology in the English-speaking world and was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1972?

• Which educational psychologist was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three times?

• Which Stanford psychologist was a devout Quaker?

• Which psychologist published a dissertation on eminent women under James McKeen Cattell and Robert S. Woodworth?

• Which psychologist married her fellow graduate student with whom she would later share a professional relationship writing about reproduction and the influence of hormones on behaviours?

• Which psychologist's research on level of aspiration led to her studies becoming known classics in the field?