by Kathy Hotelling and Barbara A. Zuber

About the authors: Kathy Hotelling is director at the Counseling and Student Development Center at Northern Illinois University. Barbara A. Zuber is a psychologist at the Counseling and Student Development Center at Northern Illinois University.

Editor’s Note: Scholarly references within the text and the reference list at the end of the chapter in the original version have been omitted from the following reprinted version.

Feminist paradigms of inquiry have provided scholars with the opportunity to address scientific questions and societal issues from viewpoints that formulate new questions to be answered, reconstruct prevailing theories, and develop new theories from which the world and human behavior can be viewed. Feminist thought has contended that traditional paradigms of understanding have not only been slow to address issues that face women in society, but...