Science free of sexism: A psychologist's guide to the conduct of nonsexist research.

Stark-Adamec, Cannie; Kimball, Meredith M.

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“…Additional guidelines for the conduct of feminist research (cf. Eichler & Lapointe, 1985;McHugh et al, 1986;Stark-Adamec & Kimball, 1984) emerge from this inquiry. The following suggestions are intended as means to 'live the life we sing about," to paraphrase the lyrics of a Mahalia Jackson song.…”

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“…This dilemma is particularly acute for relatively new subdisciplines such as the psychology of women where new norms are developing. For some time now feminists in Canada and the United States have been promulgating revised guidelines aimed at producing nonsexist research, hence better science (Eichler & Lapointe, 1985;McHugh et al , 1986;Stark-Adamec & Kimball, 1984). Unfortunately, with the exception of the researcher's and participants' gender and nonsexist language, the reporting guidelines ignore the range of interpersonal processes in human psychological inquiry.…”

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Do Research Reports in Mainstream Feminist Psychology Journals Reflect Feminist Values?

Walsh

1989

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Core values in feminist approaches to psychological research include attention to the relationship between scientists and citizens. But traditional methodological norms dictate that investigators restrict citizens' participation in research and prescribe an impersonal, decontextualized writing style in journal reports. Content analysis of 228 research articles in two journals associated with feminist psychology-the Psychology of Women Quarterly and Sex Roles, spanning the journals' first decadeshowed that authors typically provided minimal or no information about such relationship dimensions as level of participation, informed consent, and feedback. The depersonalized writing style generally employed gives the impression that some feminist psychologists have adopted androcentric standards for the research relationship. Developing appropriate models for both research methods and report writing is essential for feminist researchers to resolve the apparent contradiction between ideals and behavior. But certain institutional obstacles need to be overcome for the resolution to occur.

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Do Research Reports in Mainstream Feminist Psychology Journals Reflect Feminist Values?

Walsh

1989

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Feminist clinical psychologists of the CPA have published supplementary guidelines for particular facets of psychological practice. These guidelines included Guidelines for Therapy and Counselling with Women (Pettifor, Cammaert, Larsen, & Ames, 1980) and Guidelines for Non-Sexist Research (Stark-Adamec & Kimball, 1984). Following in 1986 were the Guidelines for the Elimination of Sexual Harassment developed by Byers and Price (1986).…”

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Cracking The Code: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Canadian Code Of Ethics For Psychologists

Ward¹

2021

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Hailed as “possibly the best psychologists’ code of ethics anywhere in the world” (Hadjistavropoulos, 2009, p. 4), the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists represents a powerful ethical and professional standard for practitioners of psychology. This ethical code boasts a strong theoretical and empirical basis, prediction and consistency, high educational value and relevance, and an empowering advantage for its users – psychologists. Yet, critical and feminist examinations of the CPA Code have identified problems with the Code, including its underlying structure and values, lack of regard for social justice, and ignorance of human subjectivity. These scholars’ critiques expose the problematic ideology of the CPA Code, throwing into question the ethical implications of this ethical code. Joining this broader project of critical psychology examining the undercurrents and effects of power in the discipline, this dissertation seeks to understand how the CPA Code produces ethical-professional practices and subjectivities. Framing this research within discourse, power, and governmentality or “the conduct of conduct,” I draw on the work of Michel Foucault and Foucauldian-informed psychologists to interrogate the ways in which the “ethical” practitioner is produced by the CPA Code. Further interested to explore the ethical-professional constructions of individuals and groups of people historically marginalized in Canadian society, I also analyze the CPA Code’s supplementary documents Guidelines for Ethical Psychological Practice with Women (CPA, 2007) and the Guidelines for Non-discriminatory Practice (CPA, 2001). This discourse analysis discovers the many dominant and appropriated discourses of the CPA Code, subject positions, as well as the discursive rules reinforcing the discourse practices and subjects. Dominant discourses constructing the CPA Code are science, objectivity, competence, expertise, legal, managerialism, and risk management discourses. Appropriated discourses are critical inquiry, betterment of society, and morality discourses. Sites where discursive rules are reproduced are education and training, licensure and regulation, ethical decision-making, consultation, and misconduct adjudication. Subjectivities of psychologists and clients are discussed. These findings are contextualized within Foucauldian theory and the broader critical psychology literature.

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“…Hyde's (1981Hyde's ( , 1984 work on the magnitude of sex differences is an excellent example of this approach. In addition, a number of feminists have stressed the importance of changing research practices and publication policy to include systematic measures of distribution as well as means and tests of statistical significance and to encourage the publication of non-significant results (Favreau, 1977(Favreau, , 1982McHugh et al, 1981;Stark-Adamec & Kimball, 1984).…”

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Developing a feminist psychology of women: Past and future accomplishments.

Kimball¹

1986

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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A feminist approach to the psychology of women is defined. In terms of this definition four areas central to the psychology of women are examined. These areas are theory building, sex differences research, research describing women's lives, and feminist therapy. For each area past accomplishments are outlined and future directions are suggested. In conclusion, two important methodological paradoxes are presented, and their relevance to a developing feminist psychology of women is discussed.

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Science free of sexism: A psychologist's guide to the conduct of nonsexist research.

Cited by 19 publications

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Do Research Reports in Mainstream Feminist Psychology Journals Reflect Feminist Values?

Do Research Reports in Mainstream Feminist Psychology Journals Reflect Feminist Values?

Cracking The Code: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Canadian Code Of Ethics For Psychologists

Developing a feminist psychology of women: Past and future accomplishments.

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