What We Look For is What We Find

• Autores: Rhoda Unger
• Localización: Quaderns de Psicología, ISSN 0211-3481, Vol. 12, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Desigualdades de género en "tiempos de igualdad". Aproximaciones desde dentro y fuera de la/s psicología/s), págs. 35-46
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/qpsicologia.841
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  • El propósito de este artículo es analizar las conexiones epistemológicas entre las palabras utilizadas por los psicólogos, la forma en que las palabras influyen en la metodología que usamos, y cómo los métodos influyen en nuestras creencias sobre la causalidad y los fenó-menos entendidos como "hechos" psicológicos. Estos procesos son considerados en términos de una perspectiva personal e histórica obtenida a través de casi cuarenta años de estudio de la psicología de las mujeres y del género. Este artículo se centra en la historia de la dis-tinción entre "sexo" y "género" y la atención continuada de los investigadores sobre la cues-tión de si las diferencias de sexo/género existen. Afirmo que el tema sigue siendo investi-gado debido a la relativa ausencia de variables socio-estructurales tales como el estatus o el poder en la mayoría del discurso psicológico y en la atención empírica actual de muchas psicólogas feministas en Estados Unidos. También afirmo que la falta de atención hacia la epistemología y hacia la conexión entre política y academia ha llevado a una definición de la psicología de las mujeres y/o del género que ya no atiende a la teoría feminista y a un declive de la academia socialmente activista. Mujeres y varones no pueden ser estudiados de forma aislada de otras construcciones sociales tales como raza/etnicidad, clase social, diversidad sexual, y diferencia cultural. Tal síntesis será difícil sin un retorno a las preocu-paciones sobre la epistemología y sobre la generación de preguntas que apenas son aborda-das en la psicología feminista estadounidense actual.

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