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Gergen has also been innovating in developing a field of performative psychology, in which dramatic presentations are featured as a way of both carrying out research and communicating with peers and public. A pioneer of this approach in psychology, her first solo performance, “From Mod-Masculinity to
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ideas within diverse practice areas, including therapy, organizational consulting, and education. She is a co-creator of the positive aging newsletter healthandage.com, an electronically distributed news source designed to reconstruct the negative stereotype of aging, and to provide an alternative
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series. Mary Gergen traveled internationally to give lectures and workshops and served on examination committees and as an external examiner for Ph.D. theses from many countries, in addition to supervising several doctoral dissertations and teaching in a theoretical psychology program at
167:, and social constructionist ideas. Her attempt, at the outset, was to develop an alternative in studies of gender to both the hegemonic empiricist mode and the feminist standpoint orientation. This alternative grew from her engagement with social constructionist theory. 204:, June, 1989. In her writing she also attempts to expand beyond conventional forms in order to bring forth multiple perspectives and to challenge existing forms of order. Examples of this approach can be found in what may be her most important work, 191:. A major focus of this work has been on gendered narratives, and their implications for women's careers. Her interest in narrative has recently led her to a concern with narratives of nature, and the human-environmental connection. 394: 188: 369: 409: 404: 70:
with a specialization in counseling at the University of Minnesota. Mary Gergen earned a Ph.D. at Temple University in social psychology.
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In the early 1990s, she was one of the seven founders of The Taos Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of
183:(1997), edited with Sara N. Davis, attempted to exemplify the new potentials for the field. Her work on gender issues is primarily 127: 384: 399: 290: 414: 97: 312:
Markus, Hazel R., and Shinobu Kitayama. "Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation."
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Post-Mod Macho: A Feminist Re-play” was presented at a symposium on ‘Postmodernity and Psychology” in Aarhus,
22:(December 12, 1938 – September 22, 2020) was an American social psychologist specializing in feminist studies 134:
teaching award, a university wide honor, in 1966, and became a full professor. Gergen was given the title of
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Her first major effort to address this shift “Towards a feminist methodology” appeared in her edited book,
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with her first husband, Michael Gebhart, and their two children, Lisa and Michael, she worked at
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Reconstruction 2008). Allyn & Bacon, (With K. J. Gergen & Stuart Schrader).
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as a research assistant in the Social Relations Department, and later at the
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Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology. Narrative, Gender & Performance,
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University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni
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Social constructionism: sources and stirrings in theory and practice
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Realities and relationships: Soundings in social construction.
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Reconstructing Psychology: Narrative, Gender and Performance
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Communication as Social Construction: Readings, Research,
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Gergen’s major contributions lie at the intersection of
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that is more promising in potential. She also edits the
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Mary Gergen's Profile on Psychology's Feminist Voices
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In 1980, Mary Gergen earned a Ph.D. in psychology at
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women's studies
social constructionism
organization development
Minnesota
St. Louis Park
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Phi Beta Kappa
Delta Gamma
Educational Psychology
Boston
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
Kenneth J. Gergen
Pennsylvania
American Psychological Association
Temple University
social psychology
AT&T
Penn State
women's studies
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
George W. Atherton
Emerita
social constructionist
Massey University
feminist theory
qualitative
narrative methods
Denmark

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