Date: Tuesday, March 24th

Time: 17:30

Format: hybrid ; Meeting room at Palau de Cerveró and Zoom (access code 663951)

Rapporteur: María José Monteagudo Soto

Summary:

In this talk we will present two recently published projects in which I have been directly involved. On the one hand, coordinating the work  Pioneering Psychologists: Stories of science, feminism and social commitment, published by the University of Valencia and a more comprehensive commitment by co-directing the Manual of Inclusive History of Psychology published by Mac Graw Hill.

In the case of the Publication of Pioneering Psychologists, it is also a work that grew with the collaborations of different historians committed to a historiographical analysis with a "gender perspective". To this end, we pay attention to women who approached psychology from philosophy, teaching or medicine and who, even trying to adjust to the canonical proposals to fit into the system, did not receive the recognition they deserved, but a total or partial oblivion. This occurred in all socio-historical contexts and in the different psychological currents without exception. It has been difficult to write their stories, as many of them left little written work or were lost as collaborators or helpers in their writings. Even so, we have followed the traces of their memory to discover brave, committed women, guided in many of their actions by associationism and collaborative altruism. Many others were committed to the feminism that was beginning and that helped to combat the sexism and misogyny of the psychological theories of the time.

In the case of the Inclusive History Manual, it is a collaborative work with historians from different approaches and contexts, where we have tried to bring history, both of international reference, and of our closest environment, for example psychology in Spain and Latin America, and to do so with a more feminist and inclusive perspective and we have done so considering from the first influences,  passing through all psychological currents, to contemporary history. It was a necessary work to complete the historical account of psychology and show it to both students and teachers of Psychology.

Biography:

Dr. María José Monteagudo Soto has focused her research in recent years on the recovery of a genealogy of national and international authors that allow writing a history of inclusive psychology.

With a PhD in Psychology, she has been a lecturer and coordinator of the history of Psychology at the University of Valencia (UVEG) and at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is a researcher at the Institute of History of Science at the López Piñero InterUniversity Institute of the UVEG with international publications in the area of History of Psychology, gender perspective and basic psychological processes. Collaborator of the international project Feminist Voices in past Psychology, she is a member of the Spanish Society for the History of Psychology and has been the president of the last international meeting held in 2025 in Valencia.