An investigation of the debates around standpoint theory and the post-structuralist alternative argument. The contributors: consider questions and developments on "giving voice"; and explore arguments and theoretical positions concerning power and subjectivity.

Introduction - Karen Henwood, Christine Griffin and Ann Phoenix PART ONE: MODES OF ARGUING/THEORETICAL POSITIONING Dialogues and Differences - Rosalind Gill Writing, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Representation Telling Stories - Stevi Jackson Memory, Narrative and Experience in Feminist Research and Theory PART TWO: DIVERSE POSITIONINGS Women and Men Talk about Aggression - Corinne Squire An Analysis of Narrative Genre Voice and Ventriloquation in Girls′ Development - Lyn Mikel Brown Researching Marginalized Standpoints - Harriet Marshall, Anne Woollett and Neelam Dosanjh Some Tensions around Plural Standpoints and Diverse `Experiences′ Shameful Women - Bruna Seu Accounts of Withdrawal and Silence Gender Practices - Margaret Wetherell and Nigel Edley Steps in the Analysis of Men and Masculinities An Outsider Within - Sara Willott A Feminist Doing Research with Men PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND PRACTICE Beyond Innocence - Janneke van Mens-Verhulst Feminist Mental Health Care and the Postmodernist Perspective The Child, the Woman and the Cyborg - Erica Burman (Im)possibilities of Feminist Developmental Psychology

`An impressive statement from British feminist-mainly discursive social-psychology....The introduction....is a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the importance and limitations of the `axis between feminism and poststructuralism′. It maps the issues in a theoretical sophisticated way which should put paid to any lingering notions that psychologists can′t work with critical theory′ -Feminist Theory