Feminist issues in research methodology: The development of a cognitive scale

Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conduc ting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take in to account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or phil osophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this plur alistic framework, there are some common principles of feminist research th at cut across the different methodologies used in social science. The focus of this article is to discuss these common principles of feminist research and illustrate how they guided the development of a cognitive scale for fu nctional bowel disorders.