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A Feminist Psychology of Gender, Work, and Organizations

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Critical and feminist psychological perspectives have been chronically excluded from mainstream disciplines of industrial and organizational psychology in the United States and Europe. Due to these epistemic exclusions, apolitical conceptions of gender have proliferated and theories of gendered power in the context of work have been overlooked. This ignores histories of global labor relations, which show that work is a heavily politicized domain with rich histories of gendered struggle. In this chapter, I offer critical psychological (re)conceptualizations of “leadership,” “imposter syndrome,” and “interpersonal conflict” to show how work-related phenomena are situated with/in and through intersecting socio-historical relations of power and domination. Finally, I argue that a feminist psychology of gender, work, and organizations offers valuable critical readings of gender and power for future research.

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Thompson, L. (2023). A Feminist Psychology of Gender, Work, and Organizations. In: Zurbriggen, E.L., Capdevila, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41531-9_4

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