Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Social & Behavioral Science |
Department |
Psychology |
Creator |
Diamond, Lisa |
Title |
Careful what you ask for: reconsidering feminist epistemology and autobiographical narrative in research on sexual identity development |
Date |
2006 |
Description |
Feminist theory has had an undoubtable but inconsistent influence on developmental psychology. Although feminist perspectives have productively challenged developmental models centered on male experiences (Gilligan 1982) and have called attention to socialization practices that reproduce systematic gender inequalities (Bem 1993), more radical feminist perspectives on scientific epistemology and methodology have had considerably less influence. Recent research on the interpersonal construction of selfhood through autobiographical storytelling raises troubling questions about the extent to which qualitative investigations actually coconstruct the evelopmental phenomena they seek to investigate. My goal in this article is to elucidate how this dilemma has manifested itself in my own qualitative, longitudinal research on sexual identity development over the past ten years (Diamond 1998, 2000, 2003a, 2005a, 2005b) and to suggest how a more explicit integration of feminist epistemology with research on the developmental functions of autobiographical narrative can transform and advance the knowledge gained from developmentally oriented qualitative research. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
University of Chicago Press |
First Page |
471 |
Last Page |
492 |
Subject |
Feminism; Epistemology; Autobiography |
Subject LCSH |
Feminist theory; Feminist psychology; Developmental psychology |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Diamond, L. (2006). Careful what you ask for: Reconsidering feminist epistemology and autobiographical narrative in research on sexual identity development. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 31, 471-92. |
Rights Management |
(c) University of Chicago Press http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/signs |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
105,279 Bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,2576 |
ARK |
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Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
706110 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fx7v0v |