The invisibility and marginality of women within psychology has been at the centre of considerable disaffection with the discipline. The desire to address this invisibility and replace women and gender within the discipline has resulted in a fertile source of theorizing and research. This article presents an outline of the causes of the disaffection, and discusses some of the current trends and debates in the work on gender and psychology.
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