| Summary: | The purpose of a feminist postmodern deconstruction is
to reveal the gender ideology and hidden political context embedded
within the language of the text. This research project applies this
methodology to a body of selected texts concerning women and men
in policing as contained in The Journal of Police Science and
Administration . This journal is representative of the type and focus
of traditional empirical studies on police officers. The
deconstruction of these texts reveals how the lives of women and
men are inadequately theorized or described in traditional empirical
psychology, as feminist criticisms of psychology have noted. Also
revealed is the establishment of police psychology as an adjunct of
policing and together they convey the masculine as normative. In
this way, psychology and policing adhere to the dominant discourse
of patriarchy that marginalizes women's transforming contributions
to both these fields. This analysis indicates how using the
perspectives of feminist postmodernism can help design and
implement research that achieves an emancipatory psychology. In
turn, the results of this study influence recommendations for
counselling psychology. === Education, Faculty of === Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of === Graduate
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