I gratefully acknowledge Holly Angelique, Kathy Desilets, Irene Egan, Miriam Klein, and Donna O'Neill for their help reviewing and editing this paper and for their encouragement.
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Mentors, Muses, and mutuality: honoring barbara snell dohrenwend†
Article first published online: 12 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20507
© 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Journal of Community Psychology
Special Issue: Special Issue: Co-Creating Feminist Community Psychology
Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 182–194, January 2012
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Mulvey, A. (2012), Mentors, Muses, and mutuality: honoring barbara snell dohrenwend. J. Community Psychol., 40: 182–194. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20507
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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.