Rose Capdevila
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rose Capdevila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Capdevila |
| SIGNATURE | CAPDEVILA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3014-6938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deepfake Technology and Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review
Online violence against women (OVAW) is a growing global problem with deepfakes in gender-based violence as one manifestation of this that has recently attracted considerable attention. This scoping review aims to explore emerging complexities in current academic understandings of deepfake in relation to its use in gender-based violence. The review considers how these issues impact and shape what is currently known about deepfakes in relation to …
Calling it out? A Q Methodological Study of Sexual Harassment Labelling
The public condemnation of high-profile men accused of gendered violence in 2017 resulted in an upsurge of women labelling past experiences as sexual harassment. This study used Q methodology to explore understandings of sexual harassment in the UK. Forty participants sorted 62 statements into quasi-normal grids which were factor analyzed (by person). Eight factors were identified which were titled: Sex Not Sexism, Sexualized Discriminations, Vic…
Mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected fro…
Digital families: Gendered relationships in online spaces
This Special Issue sets out to consider gendered family relationships in digital spaces.These spaces, including social media, digital media, streaming services, and web pages, have increased access to family-focused content online.Drawing on critical feminist psychological perspectives that question the prioritisation of essentialist and normative conceptualisations of family and gender, this special issue examines the phenomenon of digital mothe…
Powes is pronounced “feminist”: Negotiating academic and activist boundaries in the talk of UK feminist psychologists
The Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) accounts for much of the feminist action in British psychology and beyond. In this qualitative study, we use discursively informed thematic analysis to examine a set of eleven in-depth interviews to explore the everyday experiences of feminists within academic spaces in and around the discipline of psychology in the United Kingdom. Three research que…
Celebrating 30 years of Feminism & Psychology
Feminism & Psychology ( F&P) was launched in 1991 with a sense of possibility, enthusiasm and excitement as well as a sense of urgent need – to critique and reconstruct mainstream psychology (theory, research methods, and clinical practice). Thirty years have now passed since the first issue was produced. Thirty volumes with three or four issues have been published each year, thanks to the efforts of many. On the occasion of F&P’s 30th anniversar…
She’s so vain? A Q study of selfies and the curation of an online self
Selfie posting is now a well-established practice, particularly for young women. However, it is nevertheless much maligned in popular discourses. As a counterpoint to digital narcissism, selfie posting is also constituted as relational. This Q methodological study explored how young women make sense of selfie practices. Twenty-seven young women aged 18–23 sorted a set of statements about selfies into a quasi-normal grid. These sorts were factor a…
Hapless, helpless, hopeless: An analysis of stepmothers’ talk about their (male) partners
The identity of stepmother is, in many ways, a troubled one – constructed as “other” and often associated with notions of “wickedness” in literature and everyday talk. This paper reports findings from a study on the difficulties faced by stepmothers and how they use talk about their (male) partners, often constructing men as hapless, helpless or hopeless, to repair their “troubled” identities. The data were collected from a web forum for stepmoth…
Feminism & Psychology: Innovations and continuities
Introducing State of the Discipline Papers
The editors of Feminism & Psychology are delighted to introduce the first of our State of the Discipline papers. Twenty-five years have passed since the establishment of FP point out areas of conceptual and methodological debate among feminist scholars; open up the topic to further scrutiny and new ways of understanding; and promote nuanced work in the field. We hope that the State of the Discipline papers will accomplish a number of aims. We int…
Special Issue of Women's Studies International Forum: Choosing mothering? The gendering of agency
Feminism & Psychology going forward
Reflection is fundamental to all feminist practice, and the editorials in Feminism & Psychology (FP and in enthusiasm and excitement about the future and what it may be possible to achieve’ (Wilkinson et al., 1991: 5). Seventeen years later, Nicola Gavey and Virginia Braun took over as editors. Acknowledging its ‘radical promise and sense of transformative possibility’ (Gavey and Braun, 2008: 5), they envisaged that F&P would play a ‘leading role…
Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights
Methodological Pluralism in Theory and in Practice: The Case for Q in the Community
In this article, we discuss the issue of methodological pluralism in qualitative research and in particular the case of Q methodology. Q methodology occupies an interesting position in arguments around methodological pluralism in that its location within qualitative (as well as quantitative) traditions has often been represented as a contestable issue. To contextualise our exploration of qualitative methodological pluralism, we will begin by pres…
Lysistratus, Lysistrata, Lysistratum: Coconstructing the Identities of Mother and Activist
Instances of women's involvement in politics are prevalent both in the historical and cross-cultural literature. However, as we know, the involvement of some women in political life has not always produced greater access to political power for women in everyday life. This article aims to examine how the identities of mother and activist have been produced and brought together, or coconstructed, in published texts and in interviews conducted with …
The Personal and the Political are Feminist: Exploring the Relationships among Feminism, Psychology, and Political Life
Q Methodology and a Delphi Poll: A Useful Approach to Researching a Narrative Approach to Therapy
Q methodology and a Delphi poll combined qualitative and quantitative methods to explore definitions of White and Epston's (1990) White, M and Epston, D. 1990. Narrative means to therapeutic ends, New York: Norton. [Google Scholar] narrative approach to therapy among a group of UK practitioners. A Delphi poll was used to generate statements about narrative therapy. The piloting of statements by the Delphi panel identified agreement about theoreti…
It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK
This paper looks at a political speech given by the leader of the opposition party during the run up to the UK elections in 2005. Using this speech as a starting point, we attempt to trace the path of ‘racism’ within a text that makes explicit claims to being ‘not racist’. Drawing on a number of theoretical and methodological resources, this paper approaches the analysis by focusing on a number of conceptually heterogeneous elements that, in rela…
VI. Redefinition Reviewed: What `Toward a Redefinition of Sex and Gender' Can Offer Today
Although I became familiar with Rhoda Unger’s work a decade ago while I was a postgraduate student, I only recently came to read ‘Toward a Redefinition of Sex and Gender’ (1979). Coming to it almost 30 years after it was published, and being already familiar with her later work, of course, provides one with a somewhat different point of engagement. In a sense, I cannot help but see the paper as the first steps taken on the road to a prolific, dis…
Feminisms without Borders: Exploring the Relationships between Feminist and Political Psychology
V. Motherhood and Political Involvement: The Construction of Gender and Political Identities
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
Going after means taking up a position with regard to something and the active pursuit of that same thing. It is the critical move par excellence, but also an act of appropriation. This essay suspends the urge to go after in preference for an exploration of the trajectory of that body of texts known as the sociology of translation. The figure of the perpetuum mobile is put into circulation through these texts in order to trace some of their more …
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK
This paper looks at a political speech given by the leader of the opposition party during the run up to the UK elections in 2005. Using this speech as a starting point, we attempt to trace the path of ‘racism’ within a text that makes explicit claims to being ‘not racist’. Drawing on a number of theoretical and methodological resources, this paper approaches the analysis by focusing on a number of conceptually heterogeneous elements that, in rela…
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
Going after means taking up a position with regard to something and the active pursuit of that same thing. It is the critical move par excellence, but also an act of appropriation. This essay suspends the urge to go after in preference for an exploration of the trajectory of that body of texts known as the sociology of translation. The figure of the perpetuum mobile is put into circulation through these texts in order to trace some of their more …
Hapless, helpless, hopeless: An analysis of stepmothers’ talk about their (male) partners
The identity of stepmother is, in many ways, a troubled one – constructed as “other” and often associated with notions of “wickedness” in literature and everyday talk. This paper reports findings from a study on the difficulties faced by stepmothers and how they use talk about their (male) partners, often constructing men as hapless, helpless or hopeless, to repair their “troubled” identities. The data were collected from a web forum for stepmoth…
She’s so vain? A Q study of selfies and the curation of an online self
Selfie posting is now a well-established practice, particularly for young women. However, it is nevertheless much maligned in popular discourses. As a counterpoint to digital narcissism, selfie posting is also constituted as relational. This Q methodological study explored how young women make sense of selfie practices. Twenty-seven young women aged 18–23 sorted a set of statements about selfies into a quasi-normal grid. These sorts were factor a…
Feminism & Psychology going forward
Reflection is fundamental to all feminist practice, and the editorials in Feminism & Psychology (FP and in enthusiasm and excitement about the future and what it may be possible to achieve’ (Wilkinson et al., 1991: 5). Seventeen years later, Nicola Gavey and Virginia Braun took over as editors. Acknowledging its ‘radical promise and sense of transformative possibility’ (Gavey and Braun, 2008: 5), they envisaged that F&P would play a ‘leading role…
Q Methodology and a Delphi Poll: A Useful Approach to Researching a Narrative Approach to Therapy
Q methodology and a Delphi poll combined qualitative and quantitative methods to explore definitions of White and Epston's (1990) White, M and Epston, D. 1990. Narrative means to therapeutic ends, New York: Norton. [Google Scholar] narrative approach to therapy among a group of UK practitioners. A Delphi poll was used to generate statements about narrative therapy. The piloting of statements by the Delphi panel identified agreement about theoreti…
Calling it out? A Q Methodological Study of Sexual Harassment Labelling
The public condemnation of high-profile men accused of gendered violence in 2017 resulted in an upsurge of women labelling past experiences as sexual harassment. This study used Q methodology to explore understandings of sexual harassment in the UK. Forty participants sorted 62 statements into quasi-normal grids which were factor analyzed (by person). Eight factors were identified which were titled: Sex Not Sexism, Sexualized Discriminations, Vic…
Mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected fro…
Lysistratus, Lysistrata, Lysistratum: Coconstructing the Identities of Mother and Activist
Instances of women's involvement in politics are prevalent both in the historical and cross-cultural literature. However, as we know, the involvement of some women in political life has not always produced greater access to political power for women in everyday life. This article aims to examine how the identities of mother and activist have been produced and brought together, or coconstructed, in published texts and in interviews conducted with …
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
Powes is pronounced “feminist”: Negotiating academic and activist boundaries in the talk of UK feminist psychologists
The Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) accounts for much of the feminist action in British psychology and beyond. In this qualitative study, we use discursively informed thematic analysis to examine a set of eleven in-depth interviews to explore the everyday experiences of feminists within academic spaces in and around the discipline of psychology in the United Kingdom. Three research que…
The Personal and the Political are Feminist: Exploring the Relationships among Feminism, Psychology, and Political Life
Feminisms without Borders: Exploring the Relationships between Feminist and Political Psychology
V. Motherhood and Political Involvement: The Construction of Gender and Political Identities
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation
Going after means taking up a position with regard to something and the active pursuit of that same thing. It is the critical move par excellence, but also an act of appropriation. This essay suspends the urge to go after in preference for an exploration of the trajectory of that body of texts known as the sociology of translation. The figure of the perpetuum mobile is put into circulation through these texts in order to trace some of their more …
V. Motherhood and Political Involvement: The Construction of Gender and Political Identities
Feminisms without Borders: Exploring the Relationships between Feminist and Political Psychology
It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK
This paper looks at a political speech given by the leader of the opposition party during the run up to the UK elections in 2005. Using this speech as a starting point, we attempt to trace the path of ‘racism’ within a text that makes explicit claims to being ‘not racist’. Drawing on a number of theoretical and methodological resources, this paper approaches the analysis by focusing on a number of conceptually heterogeneous elements that, in rela…
VI. Redefinition Reviewed: What `Toward a Redefinition of Sex and Gender' Can Offer Today
Although I became familiar with Rhoda Unger’s work a decade ago while I was a postgraduate student, I only recently came to read ‘Toward a Redefinition of Sex and Gender’ (1979). Coming to it almost 30 years after it was published, and being already familiar with her later work, of course, provides one with a somewhat different point of engagement. In a sense, I cannot help but see the paper as the first steps taken on the road to a prolific, dis…
Q Methodology and a Delphi Poll: A Useful Approach to Researching a Narrative Approach to Therapy
Q methodology and a Delphi poll combined qualitative and quantitative methods to explore definitions of White and Epston's (1990) White, M and Epston, D. 1990. Narrative means to therapeutic ends, New York: Norton. [Google Scholar] narrative approach to therapy among a group of UK practitioners. A Delphi poll was used to generate statements about narrative therapy. The piloting of statements by the Delphi panel identified agreement about theoreti…
Lysistratus, Lysistrata, Lysistratum: Coconstructing the Identities of Mother and Activist
Instances of women's involvement in politics are prevalent both in the historical and cross-cultural literature. However, as we know, the involvement of some women in political life has not always produced greater access to political power for women in everyday life. This article aims to examine how the identities of mother and activist have been produced and brought together, or coconstructed, in published texts and in interviews conducted with …
The Personal and the Political are Feminist: Exploring the Relationships among Feminism, Psychology, and Political Life
Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights
Methodological Pluralism in Theory and in Practice: The Case for Q in the Community
In this article, we discuss the issue of methodological pluralism in qualitative research and in particular the case of Q methodology. Q methodology occupies an interesting position in arguments around methodological pluralism in that its location within qualitative (as well as quantitative) traditions has often been represented as a contestable issue. To contextualise our exploration of qualitative methodological pluralism, we will begin by pres…
Feminism & Psychology going forward
Reflection is fundamental to all feminist practice, and the editorials in Feminism & Psychology (FP and in enthusiasm and excitement about the future and what it may be possible to achieve’ (Wilkinson et al., 1991: 5). Seventeen years later, Nicola Gavey and Virginia Braun took over as editors. Acknowledging its ‘radical promise and sense of transformative possibility’ (Gavey and Braun, 2008: 5), they envisaged that F&P would play a ‘leading role…
Special Issue of Women's Studies International Forum: Choosing mothering? The gendering of agency
Introducing State of the Discipline Papers
The editors of Feminism & Psychology are delighted to introduce the first of our State of the Discipline papers. Twenty-five years have passed since the establishment of FP point out areas of conceptual and methodological debate among feminist scholars; open up the topic to further scrutiny and new ways of understanding; and promote nuanced work in the field. We hope that the State of the Discipline papers will accomplish a number of aims. We int…
Feminism & Psychology: Innovations and continuities
She’s so vain? A Q study of selfies and the curation of an online self
Selfie posting is now a well-established practice, particularly for young women. However, it is nevertheless much maligned in popular discourses. As a counterpoint to digital narcissism, selfie posting is also constituted as relational. This Q methodological study explored how young women make sense of selfie practices. Twenty-seven young women aged 18–23 sorted a set of statements about selfies into a quasi-normal grid. These sorts were factor a…
Hapless, helpless, hopeless: An analysis of stepmothers’ talk about their (male) partners
The identity of stepmother is, in many ways, a troubled one – constructed as “other” and often associated with notions of “wickedness” in literature and everyday talk. This paper reports findings from a study on the difficulties faced by stepmothers and how they use talk about their (male) partners, often constructing men as hapless, helpless or hopeless, to repair their “troubled” identities. The data were collected from a web forum for stepmoth…
Celebrating 30 years of Feminism & Psychology
Feminism & Psychology ( F&P) was launched in 1991 with a sense of possibility, enthusiasm and excitement as well as a sense of urgent need – to critique and reconstruct mainstream psychology (theory, research methods, and clinical practice). Thirty years have now passed since the first issue was produced. Thirty volumes with three or four issues have been published each year, thanks to the efforts of many. On the occasion of F&P’s 30th anniversar…
Mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected fro…
Digital families: Gendered relationships in online spaces
This Special Issue sets out to consider gendered family relationships in digital spaces.These spaces, including social media, digital media, streaming services, and web pages, have increased access to family-focused content online.Drawing on critical feminist psychological perspectives that question the prioritisation of essentialist and normative conceptualisations of family and gender, this special issue examines the phenomenon of digital mothe…
Powes is pronounced “feminist”: Negotiating academic and activist boundaries in the talk of UK feminist psychologists
The Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) accounts for much of the feminist action in British psychology and beyond. In this qualitative study, we use discursively informed thematic analysis to examine a set of eleven in-depth interviews to explore the everyday experiences of feminists within academic spaces in and around the discipline of psychology in the United Kingdom. Three research que…
Calling it out? A Q Methodological Study of Sexual Harassment Labelling
The public condemnation of high-profile men accused of gendered violence in 2017 resulted in an upsurge of women labelling past experiences as sexual harassment. This study used Q methodology to explore understandings of sexual harassment in the UK. Forty participants sorted 62 statements into quasi-normal grids which were factor analyzed (by person). Eight factors were identified which were titled: Sex Not Sexism, Sexualized Discriminations, Vic…
Deepfake Technology and Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review
Online violence against women (OVAW) is a growing global problem with deepfakes in gender-based violence as one manifestation of this that has recently attracted considerable attention. This scoping review aims to explore emerging complexities in current academic understandings of deepfake in relation to its use in gender-based violence. The review considers how these issues impact and shape what is currently known about deepfakes in relation to …
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Feminism (7 works)