Transforming Theory And Research With Women: <i>Themes and Variations</i>

Worell, Judith; Etaugh, Claire

doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1994.tb01041.x

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“…Based on our own review of recent writings on feminist theory and methodology, we found that there seem to be four core principles that are endorsed by feminist social scientists of all theoretical orientations. These core principles, which overlap with those identified by Worell and Etaugh (1994), can be summarized as: (1) the recognition of the validity and importance of women's experiences;…”

Section: Common Features Of Feminist Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale

Akman

Toner

Stuckless

et al. 2001

Feminism & Psychology

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Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conducting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take into account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or philosophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this pluralistic framework, there are some common principles of feminist research that cut across the different methodologies used in social science. The focus of this article is to discuss these common principles of feminist research and illustrate how they guided the development of a cognitive scale for functional bowel disorders.

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Section: Common Features Of Feminist Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale

Akman

Toner

Stuckless

et al. 2001

Feminism & Psychology

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“…They faulted ex periments' lack of representativeness of natural settings, a feature known as context stripping (i.e., lack of ecological validity; Worell & Etaugh, 1994). Many feminist critics thus advocated data collection in natural settings (e.g., Crawford & Kimmel, 1999;M.…”

Section: F E M I N I S T C R It Ic Is M S O F P S Y C H O L O G Y 'S mentioning

confidence: 98%

Feminism and psychology: Critiques of methods and epistemology.

Eagly¹,

Riger

2014

American Psychologist

107

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Starting in the 1960s, many of the critiques of psychological science offered by feminist psychologists focused on its methods and epistemology. This article evaluates the current state of psychological science in relation to this feminist critique. The analysis relies on sources that include the PsycINFO database, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association, 2010), and popular psychology methods textbooks. After situating the feminist critique within the late-20th-century shift of science from positivism to postpositivism, the inquiry examines feminists' claims of androcentric bias in (a) the underrepresentation of women as researchers and research participants and (b) researchers' practices in comparing women and men and describing their research findings. In most of these matters, psychology manifests considerable change in directions advocated by feminists. However, change is less apparent in relation to some feminists' criticisms of psychology's reliance on laboratory experimentation and quantitative methods. In fact, the analyses documented the rarity in high-citation journals of qualitative research that does not include quantification. Finally, the analysis frames feminist methodological critiques by a consideration of feminist epistemologies that challenge psychology's dominant postpositivism. Scrutiny of methods textbooks and journal content suggests that within psychological science, especially as practiced in the United States, these alternative epistemologies have not yet gained substantial influence.

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“…Feminist psychologists' contributions to scholarship have extended into and shaped all aspects of the discipline, as well as research on the psychology of women, over the past few decades, and feminist scholarship has resulted in significant advances in myriad aspects of theory, research methods, and the study of gender issues in multiple subfields (Kite et al, 2001;O'Connell & Russo, 1991;Worell & Etaugh, 1994). On the other hand, obstacles faced by feminist scholars, including resistance by students and colleagues to the topics studied and approaches taken to study them and practical dilemmas such as publication outlets and lack of available grant funds, remain problematic for career advancement (Benokraitis, 1998;Grossman et al, 1997).…”

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The Professional Lives of Women Psychologists at Small Colleges

Mooney¹,

Chrisler

Williams

et al. 2007

Sex Roles

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One hundred nine women faculty in psychology departments at small colleges through the United States responded to a survey about the benefits and challenges of establishing a career at a primarily undergraduate institution with an enrollment of 3,000 or fewer students. Participants reported high teaching and service loads, which made it difficult for them to spend time on their research and writing. Descriptions of campus climate were variablefrom supportive to very unsupportive of feminist teaching and scholarship. Despite the challenges, the majority of the participants had no regrets about their career paths. Advice to new women psychology faculty at small colleges is presented.The pipeline that was expected to carry a burgeoning number of women into senior faculty and administrative positions in higher education has not yet delivered as promised (White, 2005). In the field of psychology, women are now earning the majority of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, but the upper ranks of most academic psychology departments are still predominately staffed by men (Kite et al., 2001). Large numbers of women psychologists choose to practice psychotherapy or to work in other applied areas outside of academe. Moreover, those who select an academic career are less likely to join a faculty at a Research I University (Kite et al., 2001) than a faculty at a 4-year or community college, a pattern that broadly applies to women professors in other disciplines (White, 2005). One subset of these academic settings are colleges with undergraduate enrollments of 3,000 or fewer students. Because these small colleges enroll about 10% of college students across the United States, and approximately 8% of baccalaureate degrees earned at these institutions are in the psychology major, attention is warranted to the space afforded to gender issues in the undergraduate psychology curriculum and the support provided for the research agendas of feminist psychologists (Schuman, 2005).The American Psychological Association recently commissioned a Task Force on Women in Academe (see Fouad et al., 2000) to review the career progress of women psychology faculty and to make recommendations for improvement, but their comprehensive review presented

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Transforming Theory And Research With Women: Themes and Variations

Cited by 49 publications

References 19 publications

Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale

Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale

Feminism and psychology: Critiques of methods and epistemology.

The Professional Lives of Women Psychologists at Small Colleges

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