The Global Is Local Adding Culture, Ideology, and Context to International Psychology

• Published in: Psychology of Women Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 149 - 153
• Main Author: Marecek, Jeanne
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-06-2012; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Borders; Cultural Context; Culture; Disadvantaged; Emotional Disturbances; Females; Feminism; Feminist psychology; Feminists; Gender Differences; Globalization; Ideology; Localization; Measurement; North America; Psychologists; Psychology; Research Methodology; Womens studies
• ISSN: 0361-6843; 1471-6402
• DOI: 10.1177/0361684312441775

"The Political is Personal" (Else-Quest & Grabe, 2012) opens the door to transnational feminist research. Else-Quest and Grabe (2012) invite "Psychology of Women Quarterly" (PWQ) readers to make use of country-level indices to examine connections between sociopolitical gender disparities and women's distress and deprivation. The author shares these authors' desire to put the political onto the research agenda of U.S. feminist psychologists, as well as their desire to expand the purview of U.S. feminist psychology beyond the borders of North America. She also shares their desire to add to the methodological toolbox of feminist psychology. In what follows, the author opens the door to international work even wider by proposing additional theoretical and methodological tools. She invites feminist psychologists to incorporate the study of culture, ideology, and context into international research. Contains 4 notes.)