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Madden, Margaret E.; Russo, Nancy Felipe – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which psychology, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. Noting that feminist psychologists have challenged the assumption that psychological science is value-free, it cites ways in which values have affected psychological theory and method. The view that men's behavior is…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Females
Nelson, Julie A. – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which economics, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. It explains that feminist work in transforming economics began to gain ground only in the early 1990s, and that the impact of feminist or multicultural insights on the core research assumptions of the discipline has been…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Capitalism, College Curriculum, College Instruction
Edwards, J. Michele – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which music, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. It explains that during the 1970s, music scholars began to recover the history of women composers and musicians, and that by the 1980s scholars such as Susan McClary had begun to explore such issues as musical semiotics and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Ethnicity, Females
Schafer, Sylvia; Wiesner, Merry E. – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which European history, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field and by research on gender and sexuality. It explains that historians continue to challenge assumptions that have long obscured women's places in the economic, social, and political histories of Europe, especially in…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Culture, European History
Hewitt, Nancy A. – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which U.S. history, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field and by research on gender and sexuality. It notes that the recognition that gender matters revolutionized the thinking of scholars who forged the field of women's history. Feminist scholars have expanded the definition of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Females, Feminism
Johnson, Jacqueline; Risman, Barbara J. – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which sociology, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field, and three major contributions of feminist scholarship are presented: the introduction of women into sociological theory and research during the era of "sex role" analysis; the shift to analyzing gender as a basic axis of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Ethnicity