Mary Gergen - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Books

• Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology. Narrative, Gender & Performance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ( 2001).
• Social Constructionism: A Reader. London: Sage, (2003) (Edited with K. J. Gergen).
• Social Constructionism: Entering the Dialogue (2004) Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications (With K. J. Gergen) Translated into Italian: La Costruzione Sociale come Dialogogo by Sadi Marhaba (2005). Padova: Logos Edizioni; Translated into French: Le Constructionism Social: Un Guide Pour Dialoguer by Alain Robiolio (2006). Brussels: SATAS.
• Communication as Social Construction: Readings, Research, Reconstruction 2008). Allyn & Bacon, (With K. J. Gergen & Stuart Schrader).
• Toward a New Psychology of Gender, New York: Routledge, 1997. (with Sara N. Davis).
• Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge (Ed.).(1988) New York: NYU Press.

Other publications

• Dialogue: Life and death of the organization. In D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick, N. Phillips, & L. Putnam (Eds.). Handbook of Organizational Discourse. (pp. 39–59). Thousand Oaks, CA, London: Sage. 2004, (with K.J. Gergen & Frank Barrett).
• Appreciative inquiry as dialogue: Generative and transformative. In D. Cooperrider & M. Avital (Eds.). Advances in Appreciative Inquiry. Vol. 1. (pp. 3–27). Bristol, England: Elsevier Science Ltd. (2004), (with K. J. Gergen, & Frank Barrett).
• Once upon a time: A narratologist’s tale. In C. Duarte & C. Lightfoot (Eds.). Narrative analysis: Studying the development of individuals in society. (2004). Thousand Oaks, CA, London: Sage.
• Positive aging: Reconstructing the life course. In C. Goodheart & J. Worell (Eds.) Handbook of Women and Girls. (2005) pp. 416–426. London, New York: Oxford University Press (with K. J. Gergen).
• “Toward a Performative Psychology”(translated). In H. P Mattes & Tamara Musfeld (Ed.). Psychologische Konstrucktionen. Der Diskurs des Performativen. Göttingen, (pp. 200–210). Germany: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2005.
• Narratives in action, Narrative Inquiry. 2006, 16, 112-128-121. (With K. J. Gergen, 2nd author)
• Social construction and research methods in the social sciences. In W. Outhwaite and S. Turner (Eds.) Handbook of Social Science Methodology. (pp. 461–478). London, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ( 2007) (With K. J. Gergen)
• Social construction and research as action. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Vol. 2, 2007, pp. 350–380. (with K. J. Gergen, 2nd author);
• Collaboration without end: The case of the Positive Aging Newsletter. In D. Gerhart & H. Anderson (Eds.) Collaborative therapy: Relationships and conversations that make a difference. 2007. New York: Routledge. (With K. J. Gergen).
• Social construction and psychological inquiry. In J. Gubrium & J. Holstein (Eds.). Handbook of Social Constructionism. 2007, (pp. 171–188) Sage. (With K. J. Gergen).
• Narratives of the nature-human connection. In T. Sugiman, K. Gergen, W. Wagner, & Y. Yamada (Eds.), Meaning in Action: Constructions, narratives, and representations. 2008, (pp. 205–221). Japan: Springer.
• Qualitative methods in feminist psychology. In W. Stainton-Rogers & C. Wittig (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. 2008 (pp. 280–295). London, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Qualitative inquiry in gender studies. In J. Chrisler & D. McCreary (Eds.) Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology. Sage. (in press, 2009).
• Editorial: A Conversation about Performative Social Sciences. Forum for *Qualitative Research, Vol. 10 (refereed electronic journal) Berlin, Germany (with Kip Jones), May, 2008.
• Qualitative Inquiry: Tensions and transformations. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd Edition. (with K.J. Gergen). (2000) (pp. 1025–1046).
• Life stories: Pieces of a dream. In G. Rosenwald & R. Ochberg (Eds.). Storied Lives, New Haven: Yale University Press. 1992, pp. 127–144.
• Finished at forty: Women’s development within the patriarchy. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 1990, 14, 451-470.
• From mod masculinity to post-mod macho: A feminist re-play. The Humanist Psychologist.1990, 18, 95-104.

Performative psychology pieces

• "All the Gold in Fort Knox". Symposium: Performative Psychology V. American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, Aug. 16-20, 1999.
• "Woman as Spectacle," International Conference for Constructivist Psychology, Victoria, Canada, 2002
• Kongress fur Klinische Psychologie. "Lust und Last," Berlin, Feb. 15-20, 1999.
• Arts Bank Theater on South Street, Philadelphia, PA March 1998.
• "Creating Culture: A Dialogic Demonstration," Co-presenter K.J. Gergen. Symposium: Performative Psychology III. American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, Aug. 15-19, 1997.
• "Relationalia: A Hyperlogue" Co-presentation with K.J. Gergen. Presentations at:Western Speech Communications Association Meetings, Monterey, CA Feb.15-19, 1997.
• Constructionnisme Social, Resonances et Postmodernisme. Conference organized by l’Institut d’Etudes de la Famille et des Systemes Humains. Brussels, Belgium, May, 1997.
• First International Convention on Family Therapy. University of Athens, Athens, Greece, July 3–7, 1996
• Refiguring the Human Sciences: New Practices of Inquiry. A Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Symposium. University of Iowa, Iowa City, June 22–24, 1995.
• Understanding the Social World, Towards an integrative approach. Huddersfield University, England, July 17–19, 1995
• "Corpo-(un)reality; Embodied Specie-ous", Presentation at Performative Psychology I, Symposium at the American Psychological Association Meetings, New York City, August, 1995.
• "Skipping Stone on a pond: Feminism, postmodernism and psychology" Social Construction, Culture, and the Politics of Social Identity. The New School of Social Research, Dept. of Psychology, New York City, April, 1995.
• "Performative Psychology", Co-presentations with KJ Gergen. Discourse and the Construction of Knowledge Conference, Adelaide, Australia. Feb., 1996.
• "Dialogic processes and the creation of selves". Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, March, 1992 (with K. J. Gergen as co-symposiast, doing original performative psychology pieces on the production of selves)
• "From mod masculinity to post-mod macho: A feminist re-play." Symposium: Postmodernity and Psychology. Center for Kvalitativ Metodeudvikling, University of Arhus, Denmark, June, 1989. (video from Forum: Qualitative Social Research)