Areas of Expertise
Psychology; Feminist Theory; Epistemology
Email: falmagne@brandeis.edu
Current Project
I will pursue work on a book that will develop a transdisciplinary feminist theoretical and methodological frame for the psychological study of thinking and personal epistemology. I will complete an article “Theorizing identity: The centrality of age,” and I will write an invited article for a special issue on “Persons” in New Ideas in Psychology that will discuss that topic from a feminist perspective.
Biography
Rachel Joffe Falmagne is Professor of Psychology and past Director of Women’s Studies at Clark University, as well as President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Her interests include feminist theory, critical psychology, feminist philosophical perspectives on epistemology, and methodological and epistemological issues for the social sciences. She has discussed how gender as a social formation, in its intersection with social formations such as ‘race’ and class, structures the social order at all levels of social organization, materially, discursively, symbolically, institutionally and psychologically. She has published on the complexly gendered foundations of thought, culture and development, on the material, discursive and agentive constituents of ‘self’ and 'mind’. on the intersectional politics of knowledge production, on critical appraisals of developmental and cognitive psychology, on the dialectic of critique, theory and method, on the dialectic of the particular and the general in qualitative research, and on the transdisciplinary feminist study of thought and personal epistemology. Books include Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings by Sylvia Scribner (with Ethel Tobach and Mary Parlee) and Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic (with Marjorie Hass).
Education
Ph.D., University of Brussels
B.A., University of Brussels
Representative Publications
Falmagne, Rachel J. “On the Constitution of ‘Self’ and ‘Mind’: The Dialectic of the System and the Person." Theory and Psychology, 14(6), 2004: 822-845.
Falmagne, Rachel J. “The Dialectic of the Particular and the General.” International Journal of Critical Psychology, 17, 2006: 167-184.
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