Feminism tells us our problems are caused by oppression: psychology tells us they’re all in the mind…As Carol Tavris (1992) says, ‘women get much more sympathy and support when they define their problems in medical or psychological terms than in political terms.’ as Anna Lee (1986) says, ‘Many wimmin have been strengthened by many things which we would probably not consider intrinsically good. Psychology and feminism offer different and competing explanations for the same difficulties in our lives. First of all, it’s possible to patch women up and enable them to make changes in their lives without ever addressing the underlying political issues that cause these personal problems in the first place. Three comments come to mind when this topic arises the first one is fromĬelia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins’ book Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology:Īnything that saves women’s lives, anything that makes women happier, must be feminist: mustn’t it? Well, no. Come the revolution, some women will still be unhappy, because the things that are making them so are not a result of sexism (or racism, or ageism, or whatever). It is a movement to free women from sexist oppression. Feminism is not primarily a movement to make women happy.
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