II. "Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women" as critical feminist history of psychology: Discourse communities and citation practices
Stephanie Shields's prescient article 'Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women: A Study in Social Myth' (Shields, 1975a) signaled the rise of a new genre within psychology: critical feminist history of psychology. Published in the American Psychologist while Shields was still a doctoral student, it was followed just one issue later by 'Ms. Pilgrim's' Progress, her study of Leta Stetter Hollingworth's early 20th century critique of the psychology of sex differences (Shields, 1975b) Shields's work can be situated within both the new, critical history of psychology that was beginning to appear in the pages of American psychology's flagship journal in the 1970s, and in the emerging psychology of women/feminist psychology literature that was starting to burgeon as the 1970s unfolded (for 'states of the field' at the time, see Mednick Weissman, 1975; Parlee, 1975) In this commentary, we provide a contextualization of Shields's article within these two traditions, arguing that 'Functionalism, Darwinism, and the Psychology of Women' broke new ground in combining critical history with feminist psychology but that it has been taken up differently within these two discourse communities. We substantiate this claim with the results