Locke, Abigail2016-02-162016-02-162011Locke A (2011) The social psychologising of emotion and gender: a critical perspective. In: Sexed sentiments by W Ruberg and K Steenbergh (Eds.) Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, B.V.: 185-206.90029968http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7783YesThis chapter offers an overview of psychology’s approach to sex differences in emotion, beginning from a discussion of how psychology has approached emotion. The chapter takes a critical, social-constructionist stance on emotion and critiques psychology’s essentialist stance. Moreover, it introduces a new direction in psychology in which emotion and gender are studied from a discursive perspective, in which emotion words and concepts can function interactionally. The article considers two examples. In the first, a woman is positioned as emotional and by implication, irrational. The second example investigates how the popular concept of ‘emotion work’, one that typically constructs women as down-trodden, can in fact be used as aen(c) 2011 Editions Rodopi, B.V. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.Emotions; Gender; Masculinity; Feminism; PsychologyBook chapter