ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the feminism of Weisstein and her commentators occupies the domain of psychology in the most orthodox of ways, and this produces two troubling effects. Feminism's critical relation to psychology seems to be already decided by the stability and intelligibility of the name feminist psychology, and by the many monographs, journals, conferences, and teaching courses enacted under that name. The traditional projects of feminist psychology have left those areas of the discipline that appear to cover a more neutral or sexually indifferent terrain outside feminist critical consideration. Concerns such as these betray a generalized anxiety about political location: The viability of feminist criticism is presumed to be dependent on securing a clear epistemological and political position in relation to the discipline. The intelligibility and security of a distinction between a feminist psychology and a nonfeminist one is deemed imperative to the efficacy of feminist criticism in psychology.
