Female subjects (N=22) in two consciousness-raising groups were objectively assessed to determine whether changes relating to self-reported profeminist attitudes and behaviors and relating to self-esteem and social desirability would occur. All experimental subjects significantly shifted toward more self-reported profeminist attitudes and…

Exposed feminist and nonfeminist college women (n=211) to nonsexist/humanistic, liberal feminist, or radical feminist counseling through videotaped vignette, written transcript of videotape, or extended written description. Participants' perceptions of liberal feminist counselor were significantly more positive than perceptions of either nonsexist…

Investigated potential clients' perceptions of traditional and feminist therapist announcements of services. Included an explicit traditional condition, used male and female subjects, and controlled for attitudes toward women and proclivities toward seeking professional help. Significant interaction for the trustworthiness dimension, and main…

Investigated effects of pretherapy information about a feminist therapist's values and therapy orientation. Studied self-identified feminist clients' judgments of similarity to the therapist's values, confidence in the therapist's helpfulness, and willingness to see the therapist. Subjects were not as willing to see the explicitly feminist…

The goal of this study was to bring together several lines of research and theory on women's feminist consciousness from psychology, sociology, and philosophy. Past literatures had suggested bivariate links between feminist identity development and psychological distress, feminist identity and anger, feminist identity and interpersonal conflict,…