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Canadian Perspectives on Feminism and Psychology

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This chapter situates Canadian psychology within the Canada–United States context, briefly describing the early history of academic Canadian psychology, especially in relation to women, in order to provide some sense of the cultural constraints within which feminist psychologists have worked. The origins and development of feminist psychology in Canada and its current institutional contexts are then outlined. Finally, research trends in Canadian feminist psychology today are presented.

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  1. Dept. Psychology, York University, Keele Street 4700, Toronto, M3J 1P3, Ontario, Canada

    Alexandra Rutherford

  2. Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall,, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom

    Rose Capdevila

  3. College of Arts and Commerce, Department of Psychology and Parapsychol, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, 530 003, India

    Vindhya Undurti

  4. , African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa

    Ingrid Palmary

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Radtke, H.L. (2011). Canadian Perspectives on Feminism and Psychology. In: Rutherford, A., Capdevila, R., Undurti, V., Palmary, I. (eds) Handbook of International Feminisms. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9869-9_14

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