Task force on cultural diversity in feminist psychology

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Landrine ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Feminist Psychology

Cultural Diversity and Methodology in Feminist Psychology: Critique, Proposal, Empirical Example

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Landrine ◽  
Elizabeth A. Klonoff ◽  
Alice Brown-Collins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Feminist Psychology

This article calls for a revision in the methodology of feminist psychological research because cultural differences can neither be investigated nor integrated without methodological change. A methodology that combines etic (objective, behavioral) and emic (subjective, phenomenological) approaches was demonstrated in an empirical investigation. White women did not differ from women of color in self-ratings on several gender-role stereotypic terms (etic data). However, the two groups differed significantly in how they had defined and interpreted those terms while rating themselves (emic data), and these subjective, culturally constituted interpretations predicted the self-ratings.

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