Mentors, Muses, and mutuality: honoring barbara snell dohrenwend

✍ Scribed by Anne Mulvey

• Book ID: 102311974
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20507

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

I describe feminist community psychology principles that have the potential to expand and enrich mentoring and that honor Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, a leader who contributed to the research, theory, and profession of community psychology. I reflect on the affect that Barbara Dohrenwend had on life and on the development of feminist community psychology. Examples of peer mentoring between Barbara Dohrenwend's research assistant, John L. Martin, and me are used to illustrate radiating effects of mentoring and interrelationships among forms of mentoring. Feminist community psychology principles discussed in relation to mentoring include mutuality, the power of contexts, and the importance of recognizing and affirming stigmatized and oppressed aspects of identities. The concepts of “muse” (Sullivan, 1996), “public homeplaces,” and “developmental leadership” (Belenky, Bond, & Weistein, 1997) are used to illustrate qualities of feminist community psychology mentoring. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.