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The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) has a section on Women and Psychology (SWAP), which is meant "to advance the status of women in psychology, promote quity for women in general, and to educate psychologists and the public on topics relevant to women and girls." [9] SWAP supports projects such as Psychology's Feminist Voices. [10]
The feminist movement has affected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; greater access to education; more equitable pay with men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings; the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion); and the right to own property. [1] [2]
It quickly expanded, however, to encompass a larger goal: the documentation of women throughout psychology's history, as well as a large and diverse sample of feminist psychologists in order to create a comprehensive picture of the impact of gender, women's participation, and feminism, on the development of psychology as a science and profession.
The first wave of feminism came about during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Women wanted the same opportunities as men, most notably -- the right to vote. Women wanted the same opportunities ...
Although the "waves" construct has been commonly used to describe the history of feminism, the concept has also been criticized by non-White feminists for ignoring and erasing the history between the "waves", by choosing to focus solely on a few famous figures, on the perspective of a white bourgeois woman and on popular events, and for being ...
Feminist history combines the search for past female scholars with a modern feminist perspective on how history is affected by them. While many mistake it as women's history, feminist history does not solely focus on the retelling of history from a woman's perspective. Rather, it is interpreting history with a feminist frame of mind.
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Editor of Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present (1994) Editor of The Vintage Book of Historical Feminism (1996) Writer of preface and afterword for Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case (2010) Writer of Before Feminism (2021) Her work has also appeared in various publications such as Ms.