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PSYC 345 Assignment 1 Essay Note Card 1: Allen, L. (2010). Queer(y)ing the straight researcher: The relationship(?) between researcher identity and anti-normative knowledge. Feminism & Psychology, 20(2), 147-165. doi: 10.1177/0959353509355146 Allen’s (2010) study focused on whether researchers who identify as straight (heterosexual), are able to produce anti-normative knowledge, and how the sexual identity of the researcher impacts the research process. The author focused on the epistemological implications of straight researchers partaking in queer research. Straight researchers claiming a queer identity (“queer straight”) leads to the thinking that queer identity produces anti-normative knowledge. However, the queer straight identity fails to be critically queer, because one cannot just stop thinking straight and enforces the assumption that there is a direct relationship between identity and the knowledge one produces. There is no such direct relationship, due to the highly uncertain and constantly shifting nature of identity and because hetero- normative knowledge is due to the influence of hetero-normativity. . What are the conclusions? You stated this in the sentence above. Note Card 2: Weisstein, N. (1993). Psychology constructs the female: Or he fantasy life of the male psychologist with some attention to the fantasies of his friends, the male biologist and the male anthropologist). Feminism & Psychology, 3(2), 195-210. doi: 10.1177/0959353593032005 1. Weisstein’s (1993) main argument was that the manner of obtaining correct information regarding women and psychology is flawed. The author argued that many theories come from “years of intensive clinical experience” but the discrepancy of the experimentsbased on the bias of the experimenter, and their preconceived ideas of how groups will react. They
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