Feminist Visions of Gender Similarities and Differences

Author: Meredith M. Kimball
ISBN: 9781560238706

Winner of the Distinguished Publication Award 1996 from the Association for Women in Psychology, Feminist Visions of Gender Similarities and Differences opens a dialectic between the two traditions of feminism--similarities-based and differences-based--and generates useful scientific, political, and psychological tensions. Psychologists and scholars can benefit from Meredith Kimball's analysis and the tensions she creates because they ultimately broaden feminist visions. She informs the political analysis of those working on the inside and those on the outside of feminism to end all forms of discrimination and oppression.In opening the dialogue between the two traditions, Kimballpresents a brief history of gender research and equal-rights feminisms in the early twentieth century, with an in-depth analysis of the work of Leta Stetter Hollingworth.analyzes women's experience in and feminist critiques of science and technology.analyzes research on gender-related similarities and differenc

Publisher: Haworth Press
Publish Date: 1995

Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies

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