Gail Pheterson , born in 1948 1 the United States , is a researcher, teacher and psychotherapist .

She is a teacher-researcher at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research CRESPPA Paris-UMR 7217, CNRS and University Paris 8 , CSU Team (Urban Cultures and societies) and lecturer in social psychology at the University of Picardie in Amiens .

After graduating in 1974 a PhD (doctorate) in social psychology at the University of California , Gail Pheterson then served as a teacher-researcher position in psychology at the University of Utrecht . She is since 1997 a lecturer at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens , and since 2008, a teacher-researcher CRESPPA-CSU. During a period of delegation to the University of Puerto Rico , she has conducted research in the sociology of reproductive health in the Caribbean, which were within the broader scope of its HDR defended in 2005: Social relationships of power and psychic functioning: clinical and socio-cultural studies of prejudice, stigma and change processes . It has gradually developed an epistemological critique that reframes psychological issues, both theoretical and methodological, requiring the study of the impact of social power relations on the psyche, and analyzing the ideological function of the bias-historical and -political psychologizing interpretations of social dynamics.

In the general context of his interest in the internalization and institutionalization of social norms in specific historical and cultural contexts, it is centered on the regulation of prostitution and reproduction as prism of gender relations . See Prism prostitution (L'Harmattan, 2001, orig English ed increased..) and "Pregnancy and prostitution: women under the tutelage of the state" ( Political Reasons , 2003) and, in collaboration with Yamila Azize ("Secure outlawed in the northeastern Caribbean Abortion" Contemporary Society , 2006). Among his current projects, co-director of "Network" of Central Africa on women's reproductive health: Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (GCG). "

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