Reflections on Understanding and Ameliorating Internalized Heterosexism

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ID8915366
AuthorsJames M Croteau (Western Michigan University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume36
Issue4
Pages645-653
Publication date2008-06-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0011000008319285
OpenAlexW2150210709
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

This Major Contribution of The Counseling Psychologist has the potential to be a keystone for those counseling psychologists who will place emphasis in their research, scholarship, practice, or advocacy work on heterosexism as well as for the wider profession in recognizing the destructive power of heterosexism. Brief critical ideas that add to, or expand on, discussion in this Major Contribution are offered in this response article. The restricted range of research samples and the potential for ethnocentric bias in the current conceptual and empirical approach to internalized heterosexism (IH) is discussed first. The need for “experience-near” information in IH scholarship is then discussed as an approach both to becoming less ethnocentric and to bringing about a deeper and more serious accounting for heterosexism within the profession. Finally, the importance of attention to the long-term effects of having “survived” the internalization of heterosexism is illustrated

Ethnocentrism · Heterosexism · Lesbian · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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