# Alexandra Rutherford > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexandra_Rutherford > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexandra_Rutherford.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rutherford > Source revision: 1339418983 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Is a psychology professor at York University and author of Beyond the Box}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{use Canadian English|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Alexandra Rutherford | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = professor, author, editor | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | education = | alma_mater = [York University](/source/York_University) | thesis_title = Between the science of behavior and the art of living: B. F. Skinner and psychology’s public in mid-20th century America | thesis_url = https://ocul-yor.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991023147789705164&context=L&vid=01OCUL_YOR:YOR_DEFAULT&lang=en&search_scope=OCULDiscoveryNetwork&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=OCULDiscoveryNetwork&query=any,contains,Alexandra%20Rutherford&facet=rtype,include,dissertations&mode=basic&offset=0 | thesis_year = 2001 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = | era = | discipline = Psychology | sub_discipline = | workplaces = York University | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = Psychology and Feminism, [history of psychology](/source/history_of_psychology) | notable_works = Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s
Pioneers of Psychology | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Alexandra Rutherford''' is a professor of psychology at [York University](/source/York_University)'s History and Theory of Psychology Graduate Program and author of ''Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s'' and ''Pioneers of Psychology''. ==Education== Rutherford earned her Bachelor of Science with High Distinction in 1993 from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1993. She completed her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology at York University in 1995 and her PhD in the History and Theory of Psychology and Clinical Psychology at York University in 2001.{{Cite web| title = Alexandra Rutherford |work= York University |series=Profile| access-date = July 30, 2020 | url = https://yorku.academia.edu/AlexandraRutherford/CurriculumVitae}} ==Career== Since 2001, Rutherford has been teaching in the psychology department at York University, first as assistant professor, from 2006 as associate professor, and later as full professor.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} In 2004, Rutherford founded The Psychology's Feminist Voices project{{cite web|title=Alexandra Rutherford|url=https://health.info.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=78979}} which resulted in the launching of [Psychology's Feminist Voices](/source/Psychology's_Feminist_Voices)—an [online](/source/online), [digital archive](/source/digital_archive) of the contributions made by women throughout the history of psychology, including the role of contemporary feminist psychologists in transforming the discipline of [psychology](/source/psychology).{{cite journal|last1=MacArthur|first1=H.J.|last2=Shields|first2=S.A.|title=Psychology's Feminist Voices: A critical pedagogical tool|journal=Sex Roles|date=2014|volume=70|issue=9–10|pages=431–433|doi=10.1007/s11199-014-0349-9|s2cid=141055529 }} ==Research== In 2017, her research examined the "influence of feminist-scholar activism on gender-based violence policy in the United States."{{rp|123}} ==Publications== Her 2009 book, an historical critical work on American psychologist and behaviorist, [B. F. Skinner](/source/B._F._Skinner)—''Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s'' —was largely based on her doctoral dissertation entitled "Between the science of behavior and the art of living: B. F. Skinner and psychology’s public in mid-20th century America." ''Beyond the Box'' was listed as the ''[London Times Higher Education](/source/London_Times_Higher_Education)'''s "Book of the week—July 16-July 23, 2009.{{Cite web| title = Book of the week: Beyond The Box| work = Times Higher Education (THE)| access-date = 2020-07-30| date = 2009-07-16| url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/book-of-the-week-beyond-the-box/407369.article}} A 2018 journal review, described ''Beyond the Box'' , as a "much-needed post-revisionist interpretation" of Skinner situating his work within its "social context".{{Cite journal| doi = 10.4245/sponge.v7i1.19590| issn = 1913-0465| volume = 7| issue = 1| pages = 100–102| last = Fraser| first = Jennifer| title = Review: Alexandra Rutherford, Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s.| journal = Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science| access-date = July 30, 2020| date = September 9, 2013| url = https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/article/view/19590| doi-access = free}} In ''Pioneers of Psychology'', which Rutherford co-authored with [Raymond E. Fancher](/source/Raymond_E._Fancher), they examined [Sigmund Freud](/source/Sigmund_Freud)'s in-depth interpretation in his book ''[The Interpretation of Dreams](/source/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams)'', of his own July 23, 1895 dream—[Irma's injection](/source/Irma's_injection).{{cite book|author=Peter Gay|title=Freud: A Life for Our Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gbp3ySzHPn4C|accessdate=4 December 2012|year=1988|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-31826-5|pages=80–81}}{{cite book|author1=Raymond E. Fancher|author2=Alexandra Rutherford|title=Pioneers of Psychology|edition=4th |year=2012| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York, NY}}{{rp|466–471}} In her 2011 review of [Susan Brownmiller](/source/Susan_Brownmiller)'s 1975 ''[Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape](/source/Against_Our_Will)''{{cite book|url=http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/susanbrownmiller/html/against_our_will.html |title=' Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape | author= Susan Brownmiller | author-link= Susan Brownmiller }} published in the ''[Psychology of Women Quarterly](/source/Psychology_of_Women_Quarterly)'' , Rutherford wrote that prior to Brownmiller's book, most Americans had assumed that "rape, incest and domestic violence rarely happened and that when they did, they were perpetrated by a few sexual deviants."{{cite journal |last=Rutherford |first=Alexandra |date=2017 |title=Surveying rape: Feminist social science and the ontological politics of sexual assault |journal=History of the Human Sciences|volume=30 |pages=100–123 |doi=10.1177/0952695117722715|s2cid=149008010 |doi-access=free }}{{rp|104}}{{cite journal |title=Sexual Violence Against Women: Putting Rape Research in Context|series=Review of ''Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape'' |author=Rutherford, Alexandra |journal=Psychology of Women Quarterly|doi=10.1177/0361684311404307 |date=June 2011 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=342–347 |s2cid=145146774 }} In the 1970s, American [second-wave feminist](/source/second-wave_feminist)s coined the term "[rape culture](/source/rape_culture)".{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Merril D.|title=Encyclopedia of Rape|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediarape00smit|url-access=limited|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=978-0-313-32687-5|edition=1st|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediarape00smit/page/n202 174]}} ==Media== Rutherford appeared as an expert on Skinner, on the August 28, 2019 episode, "A History of Persuasion", on [WNYC Studios](/source/WNYC_Studios)' [On the Media](/source/On_the_Media) hosted by [Kai Wright](/source/Kai_Wright) and reported by [Amanda Aronczyk](/source/Amanda_Aronczyk).{{Cite AV media | title = A History of Persuasion |number=3 |series= On the Media| work = WNYC Studios|date=August 28, 2019| access-date = July 30, 2020| url = https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-history-persuasion-part-3}} ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutherford, Alexandra}} Category:Feminist psychologists Category:Women's studies academics Category:Canadian feminist writers Category:Canadian medical historians Category:21st-century Canadian psychologists Category:Canadian women psychologists Category:Historians of psychology Category:Canadian women historians Category:Academic staff of York University Category:Canadian clinical psychologists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alexandra Rutherford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rutherford) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rutherford?action=history)). 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