Alexandra Rutherford

Professor
Department of Psychology
York University
United States of America

Professor Psychiatry
Biography

" Alexandra Rutherford is working as a Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University in Toronto. She completed his PhD (2001)from York University Toronto. Her research interest is in critical historical and qualitative approaches to analyze the development and contemporary status of the human sciences. She is a member of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. In 2013 he was president of the Society for the History of Psychology. He is currently serve on the editorial boards of Feminism & Psychology, and Theoria & Praxis and a member of the advisory board of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. "

Research Intrest

History of women, gender, and feminist activism in psychology; objectivity, advocacy, and activist social science in the 20th century; science and public policy

List of Publications
Kim S, Rutherford A(2015) From seduction to sexism: Feminists challenge the ethics of therapist-client sexual relations in 1970s America. History of Psychology 18:283-96.
Rutherford A ,Pettit M (2015) Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender. History of Psychology 18:223-37.
Fox Lee S, Rutherford A,Pettit M(2016)"Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women" as critical feminist history of psychology: Discourse communities and citation practices. Feminism & Psychology, 26:254-71.