New Voices, New Visions: Toward a Lesbian/Gay Paradigm for Psychology.

Brown, Laura S.

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Publication Date: 1989

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New Voices, New Visions: Toward a Lesbian/Gay Paradigm for Psychology.

Brown, Laura S.

Psychology of Women Quarterly, v13 n4 p445-58 Dec 1989

Explores the possibility that the lesbian or gay experience in contemporary American society might furnish a standpoint for generating new knowledge in psychology. Considers the following elements that define lesbians' or gay men's ways of knowing and experiencing the world: (1) biculturalism; (2) marginality; and (3) normative creativity. (JS)

Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Bias, Biculturalism, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Feminism, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Research Needs, Research Problems, Social Behavior

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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