| Abstract: | This article recognizes Florence L. Denmark for her courageous, innovative, and methodologically rigorous scholarship on the psychology of women; her tireless advocacy on behalf of ethnic minorities, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and gay men and lesbians; and her extensive writing on the pedagogical issues involved in integrating new scholarship on gender, race and ethnicity, and feminist and multicultural perspectives into psychology courses. When Denmark conducted her pioneering research in the 1950s and 1960s on sex differences in leadership and authoritarian behavior and on discrimination against women in higher education, these topics were not fashionable. Practically single-handedly she brought recognition and respect to women's concerns in psychology by tackling the toughest conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the interdisciplinary hybrid that is the psychology of women (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
