Integrating psychological research on girls with feminist activism: A model for building a liberation psychology in the United States

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 143-155

  Grant, Kathryn E ^a   Finkelstein, Jo Ann S ^a   Lyons, Aoife L ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent girls; feminism; liberation psychology; stress paradigm

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICISM; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; POPULATION MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FREEDOM; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

FEMALE; FEMINISM; FREEDOM; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041969727     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023034906393     Document Type: Review

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