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Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Genderreviewed by Nia Lane Chester — 1991 Title: Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender Author(s): Rachel T. Hare-Mustin, Jeanne Marecek Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300052227, Pages: , Year: 1990 Search for book at Amazon.com What we know, how we come to know it, and how we prove that what we know is real are central questions of epistemology to which many feminist scholars are returning. Making a Difference, edited by psychologists Rachel Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek, offers a set of beautifully written and argued essays by leaders in feminist theory and research, based on symposium presentations on the same topic. The contributors employ new epistemological perspectives to reveal the ways in which both traditional and post modern psychological theory, research, and practice rest on socially constructed and gendered value systems. The essays share a set of common premises: (1) that subjective values underlie all scientific models and methodological approaches; (2) that human behavior can be understood only in the context within which it is taking place and from the perspective of the person whose experience is being considered; and (3) that gender differences are... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Nia Chester
Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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