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Absent Minds
The untold story of the women who changed psychology forever
Brief Description
If asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget. But what of Mary Whiton Calkins, who has still not received her doctorate from 1895 on account of her gender despite her research influencing...
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A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be human
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Description
If asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget.
But what of Mary Whiton Calkins, who has still not received her doctorate from 1895 on account of her gender despite her research influencing contemporary psychology; or Mamie Phipps Clark, whose work informed the US court case that ruled racial segregation illegal; and Beatrice Edgell, the first British woman to earn a PhD in psychology, whose studies have determined how generations of children are taught.
Crucial to our modern world, yet largely unrecognisable. That changes now.
In Absent Minds, award-winning psychologist Dr Madeleine Pownall takes readers from the advent of the discipline through to psychologists' response to the COVID-19 pandemic and screentime debate. Entertaining and empowering, she uncovers lost legacies, documenting how women shaped the field and provided alternative, creative and more critical ways of thinking about the human experience, the benefits of which we still feel today.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035416899
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Headline Press
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Dr Madeleine Pownall, PhD, is a feminist social psychologist and Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology (Open University Press, 2021), which won a British Psychological Society Book of the Year Award in 2023. Dr Pownall regularly writes for popular audiences and is an internationally recognised feminist scholar and educator.
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