La Psicología Feminista Crítica en el suroeste semiperiférico europeo: el intrigante caso de Portugal Critical Feminist Psychology from the semipheric southwest of Europe: the intriguing case of Portugal

In this piece we aim to explore the developments in the field of critical feminist psychology in Portugal. Using a figure-ground narrative, we will contrast these developments with the hegemony of neuropsychology and cognitive psychology that are dominating the mainstream (Unger, 1998) of the discipline in Portugal and abroad. We are going to tell this story from a feminist perspective using deconstruction and genealogy as theoretical levers with which we aim to clarify the workings of power/knowledge at stake in this context. Therefore this text is in itself an act of resistance to an even more reductionist psychology focusing now on cerebral mechanisms and their apparent correlation with mental phenomena. A situated knowledge epistemology (Haraway, 1991) combined with an approach that will focus on the contingent foundations of these practices (Butler, 1992) will be the epistemological standpoint from where this paper departs.