Women at Center Stage: A Course about the Women of Psychology

Abstract

The course described in this article highlights women's contributions to and impact on the field by devoting an entire semester to psychology's women. A social constructionist model provides a framework for understanding women's historical and contemporary position in psychology, as well as the implications of women's growing presence in the discipline. This understanding is then applied to consideration of individual women, with students' work generating biographical sketches of several of psychology's women. Suggestions are offered for using material from this course in modifying more traditional courses to incorporate the work and impact of women.