Papers by Stephanie Pache
Histories of Sexology, 2021
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Recherche féministes, 2023
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Rhizome, 2023
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Revue québécoise de psychologie, 2022
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Les violences sexistes après #MeToo, 2022
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R. Geffner et al. (eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan, 2020
This chapter narrates the history of the social changes that underlay the development of researc... more This chapter narrates the history of the social changes that underlay the development of research and policies on interpersonal violence in contemporary North America. The current status of interpersonal violence as a public issue is the product of moral transformations and political actions. Social movements and victims’ advocates played a great role in redefining as morally intolerable some kinds of violence that were previously tolerated, as much as in making public what was considered a private matter. The chapter describes these processes and the actors engaged in this social justice movement, focusing especially on research and professional projects that supported the recognition of interpersonal violence as a public issue requiring political action. The production of data and studies on the prevalence of violence and its effects on the lives of concerned individuals contributed to raising awareness on this pervasive issue, as well as also framing it as a public health issue. The institutionalization of this scientific and professional activity will be described with a focus on what connects its subfields: a concern for victims and their trauma. This historical perspective shows how raising public concern about interpersonal violence included not only identifying violence and justifying action against it but also reframing it in the languages of social justice and public health. Professionals and researchers have engaged in preventing and disarming interpersonal violence with an expertise grounded in a quest for justice. This chapter teases out these entanglements in the contemporary history of interpersonal violence.
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Cahiers du Genre, 2019
À partir d’une recherche sur l’histoire de la psychologie féministe nord-américaine, cet artic... more À partir d’une recherche sur l’histoire de la psychologie féministe nord-américaine, cet article aborde la façon dont les travaux de psychologues féministes sont mobilisés pour dénoncer les violences envers les femmes et revendiquer des politiques publiques pour lutter contre celles-ci. Dans un contexte où les effets psychiques de l’oppression des femmes sont devenus une évidence, il s’agit de retracer l’histoire d’un processus de politisation de la psychologie dont on ne semble parfois retenir aujourd’hui que les éléments les plus conservateurs. Le cas des approches psychologiques des violences envers les femmes éclaire également plus globalement les enjeux de la qualification d’un processus de « psychologisation ».
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Sexualité, savoirs et pouvoirs, 2019
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Psychological expertise acquired during the 20th century a social status making it a target for c... more Psychological expertise acquired during the 20th century a social status making it a target for criticisms from the second feminist wave. This paper presents the history of how these political and epistemological criticisms build up a feminist approach of psychology. It questions also the process bringing in a new expertise with this feminist psychology.
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After an outline of the issues that will be treated in this essay and of the standpoint from whic... more After an outline of the issues that will be treated in this essay and of the standpoint from which they appear, I discuss first Jose Bleger and the understanding of his concept of ambiguity, particularly the uses that are made or could be made of it. I mention then the anti-individualistic claim from Bleger and the way he tries to think the clinical cases that he met. To illustrate the problems that seem to be created by his concept of ambiguity for the politics of emancipation, I compare briefly Bleger’s project of “dialectisation” of the psychoanalysis and the one of American feminist psychologists on the “politisation” of the psychology.
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Émulations, 15, 7-15, in press., 2015
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Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 6, p. 9-15, 2014
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in Caloz-Tschopp Marie-Claire (ed.), 2014, Ambiguïté, Violence et Civilité. (Re)lire aujourd’hui José Bleger (1923-1972) à Genève, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 119-130., 2014
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Penser l'émancipation. Offensives capitalistes et résistances internationales, 2013
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Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp (éd.), Penser les métamorphoses de la politique, de la violence, de la guerre, avec Colette Guillaumin, Nicole-Claude Mathieu, Paola Tabet, féministes matérialistes, 2013
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Klein A. (Ed.), Les sensations de santé. Pour une épistémologie des pratiques corporelles du sujet de santé, Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011
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The history of sexology is marked by the American research developed during the 20th century by p... more The history of sexology is marked by the American research developed during the 20th century by pioneers of the scientific and medical legitimation of the discipline, such as the pair formed by William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson. However, the historiography has hitherto showed little interest both for the clinical dimensions of this sexological school and for the ways those dimensions are applied locally. This paper focuses on practices formulated by Swiss sexologists and inspired by the groundbreaking work of American sexology, and on their local dynamics of theoretical reclamation and therapeutical translation. The analysed French-speaking Swiss context offers a case of clinical reception, which shows how a strategy of blending therapeutics sheds light to the negotiations at stake in the local usages of the American sexological knowledge.
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Violence is increasingly apprehended in the United States as a public health issue. It has been t... more Violence is increasingly apprehended in the United States as a public health issue. It has been the object of public health policies since a couple of decades, with the will to support public health policies on scientific grounds. My research studies of scientific and political publications on gender violence. My study is conducted under a social and cultural history of science approach. This project on violence aims to offer a history linking political issues such as the public policies regarding perpetrators and victims, with the history of the scientific framing of violent behaviours. By exploring the recent production of knowledge on violence and the relations between involved social groups, such as feminists, child and youth advocates, political organisations, governmental agencies, medical researchers, and their discourses, my research will therefore produce a better view of what is at stake in the scientific reconfiguration of violence as a public health issue. This paper focuses on the role played by the feminist movements in this reframing of violence as a public health issue. Drawing on my doctoral work on the history of American feminist psychology, I want to describe how the feminist claims regarding violence against women contributed to specific policies and studies.
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Son texte "Kinder, Küche, Kirche as scientific law: Psychology constructs the female" a été présenté à un public de militantes féministes en 1968, avant d'être publié la même année par The New England Free Press. Son succès a été tel qu'il a connu de très nombreuses rééditions et est considéré comme un texte fondateur de la psychologie féministe. Cet article dénonce les manquements de la psychologie à fournir des connaissances sur les femmes, notamment en attaquant le caractère non scientifique de nombre de recherches en psychologie. La position de Weisstein présente cependant la particularité de ne pas faire aboutir sa déconstruction féministe de la science psychologique à un rejet de toute science. Pour elle, les recherches en psychologie peuvent fournir des savoirs plus solides qui seraient ainsi plus utiles à l'émancipation des femmes. Dans un texte publié en 1993 à l'occasion d'un numéro spécial de Feminism & Psychology rééditant et commentant l'article, elle s'en prend d'ailleurs à l'épistémologie du point de vue situé et la critique de la science comme "mâle" et "bourgeoise" et renouvelle sa conviction que la science a toute sa place dans la lutte féministe.
Caplan, an American feminist psychologist, had already submitted her suggestion in 1989 for the DSM-III-R, but she raised her proposal again in 1991, when the DSM-IV was in discussion. Canadian Psychology published that year an issue on the subject. The articles present different feminist standpoints and may be read as an opportunity to apprehend the multiple relations that feminists — at least selected feminists psychologists — maintain with the DSM and its proclaimed evidence-based epistemology.
This discussion encompassed questions about the scientific quality of the DSM and its methodology, as much as political considerations concerning the process of writing the DSM — or how to struggle against. Therefore this debate is a vivid example of how politics, science and clinical practices, far from excluding each other, are embraced together by those involved in the debate, underlining the need to understand the history of diagnosis and nosology in their political and social framework.
L’institutionnalisation de l’approche féministe en thérapie apparaît en effet comme le résultat d’une activité passablement corporatiste, principalement des psychologues, du moins dans les pays étudiés. Il s’agit avant tout d’établir la légitimité de la nouvelle approche auprès des pairs et notamment d’attester son professionnalisme. En contre-point de la situation américaine où ce mouvement a été initié, la Grande-Bretagne fournit une autre vision de la thérapie féministe. Dans un domaine, la santé mentale, dont les concepts et les pratiques tendent à être considérées comme universels par les discours politiques et scientifiques les plus diffusés, je me propose de décrire les réalités divergentes des activités militantes et professionnelles de thérapeutes des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, malgré l’inscription partagée de leur action sous la bannière du féminisme. D’autre part il est toujours nécessaire de rappeler le décalage entre, d’une part, des savoirs, des théories ou des valeurs, qui peuvent être partagés en différents temps et lieux, et d’autre part, des pratiques, thérapeutiques, scientifiques ou militantes, qui, elles, s’inscrivent inévitablement dans une réalité matérielle spécifique à un contexte géographique et temporel.
Avec participations de (par ordre de parution dans l'ouvrage) : Christian Baudelot, Roger Establet, Marc Joly, Daphné Bolz, Bernard Lahire, Richard Rechtman, Francine Muel-Dreyfus, Stéphanie Pache, Claude-Olivier Doron.
Deuxième partie : Les recompositions du champ de la santé mentale
Avec participations de (par ordre de parution dans l'ouvrage) : Nicolas Henckes, Camille Lancelevée, Livia Velpry, Benoît Eyraud, Bertrand Ravon, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Baptiste Moutard, Nadia Garnoussi, Maïa Fansten.
Troisième partie : Du côté de "ceux qui souffrent" : retour sur des enquêtes empiriques
Avec participations de (par ordre de parution dans l'ouvrage) : Brigitte Chamak, Aude Béliard, Jean-Sébastien Eideliman, Isabelle Coutant, Simeng Wang, Didier Fassin, Philippe Le Moigne, Michel Gollac.