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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Crawford |
| ISBN: | 0072920777 9780072920772 0073201952 9780073201955 |
| OCLC Number: | 57134343 |
| Description: | xxvum 479 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Paving the way -- Beginnings -- How did the psychology of women get started? -- Psychology and the women's movement -- Voices from the margins : a history -- What is feminism? -- Feminism has many meanings -- Is there a simple definition? -- Methods and values in psychological research -- Toward gender-fair research -- Feminist values in research -- About this book -- A personal reflection -- Exploring further -- pt. 2. Gender in social context -- 2. Gender, status, and power -- What is gender? -- Gender shapes societies and cultures -- Gender and power -- Justifying gender inequality -- Gender shapes social interactions -- The cognitive impact of gender -- Gender as a presentation of self -- "Doing gender" -- Gender shapes individuals -- Identity, power, and gender differences -- Sexist attitudes -- Linking the levels of gender : a summary -- The gender system and violence -- Making a difference -- Transforming ourselves -- Transforming interpersonal relations -- Transforming the structures of inequality -- Exploring further -- 3. Images of women -- Words can never hurt me? -- Language about women and men -- Language about violence -- Worth a thousand words : media images -- Representing women and men -- Face-ism and sexualization -- Diversity and the media -- Invisible women -- Do sexist images matter? -- Language, imagery, and stereotypes about women and men -- The content of gender stereotypes -- Sexuality stereotypes -- Race and social class stereotypes -- Cross-cultural similarities and differences in gender stereotypes -- Are stereotypes accurate? -- The impact of stereotypes -- Stereotypes, the self, and stereotype threat -- Stereotypes, status, and power -- Stereotypes and sexist behavior -- Stereotypes are hard to change -- The problem of pornography -- What is "pornography"? -- Pornography is pervasive -- Stereotypes in pornography -- Pornography as violence against women -- Making a difference -- Transforming language -- Alternative images -- How not to stereotype -- Education and activism -- Exploring further -- 4. The meanings of difference -- The politics of difference and similarity -- Defining difference and similarity -- Measuring differences -- Interpreting results : values and ideology in research -- Gendering cognition : "girls can't do math" -- What factors influence mathematics performance? -- Social implications of gendered cognition -- Gendering emotion : "boys don't cry" -- Emotional stereotypes -- Culture, ethnicity, and emotionality -- Emotionality and social interaction -- Emotion internalized -- Social implications of gendered emotionality -- Making a difference -- The individual level : thinking critically -- The interactional level : difference and discrimination -- The sociocultura level : creating opportunities for equality -- Cam similarities and differences be reconciled? -- Exploring further -- pt. 3. Gender and development -- 5. Sex, gender, and bodies -- How does sex develop? -- Sexual differentiation during fetal development -- Variations in fetal development -- Sex, gender identity, and gender typing -- Growing up with Turner's syndrome -- Androgen insensitivity and identity -- The impact of CAH -- Transsexualism -- Sex and sexual orientation -- Is there a gay gene? -- Hormones and sexual orientation -- Sex as a social construction -- Constructing two sexes -- Constructing transsexualism -- Beyond the binary -- More than two sexes -- The transgender movement -- Making a difference -- Transforming society : equality for sexual minorities -- Transforming ourselves : accepting biological and social diversity -- Exploring further -- 6. Gendered identities : childhood and adolescence -- Theories of gender development -- Social learning theory -- Cognitive theories -- Gender in the child's daily life -- Parental influences -- Peer influences -- Gendered environments -- Media influences -- Ethnicity, social class, and gender typing -- Vulnerabilities of childhood -- Childhood sexual abuse -- Children and poverty -- Leaving childhood behind : puberty and adolescence -- Changing bodies -- Gender intensification -- Vulnerabilities of adolescence -- Self-silencing and self-esteem -- Peer culture and harassment -- Making a difference -- Transforming society : protecting children from abuse -- Transforming social interactions -- Transforming ourselves : resisting gender -- Exploring further -- 7. In a woman's body / chapter contributed by Britain Scott -- Bodily objectification of women -- Origins of objectification -- A biological basis for objectification? -- Constructing gender through female bodies -- Power and objectification : the male gaze -- Objectification in popular culture -- Beauty images and myths -- Women's bodies as sexual entertainment -- Distortion and dehumanization -- Consequences of objectification for girls and women -- The inside view : body image and self-esteem -- The outside-in view : self- objectification -- The outside view : women's bodies in social interaction -- From object to subject : the embodied woman -- The contradiction between femininity and physical activity -- Constructing the femininity and heterosexuality of women athletes -- Benefits of embodied experience for girls and women -- Making a difference -- Transforming society : challenging objectification -- Transforming social interactions : seeing the woman in the body-- Transforming ourselves : education and embodiment -- Exploring further -- Web sites -- pt. 4. Gendered life paths -- 8. Sex, love, and romance -- How is sexuality shaped by culture? -- What are sexual scripts? -- How do sexual scripts differ across cultures? -- Adolescent sexuality -- How does sexuality emerge in the teen years? -- What factors influence the decision to have sex? -- Are teens having safer sex? -- Experiencing sexuality -- First intercourse : less than bliss? -- How do women experience orgasm? -- Evils of masturbation or joys of self-pleasure? -- Lesbian and bisexual women -- A social history of lesbianism -- Defining sexual orientations -- Developing a lesbian or bisexual identity -- Romantic love and sexual pleasure -- Romantic love as a cultural script -- The experience of romantic love -- Do romantic scripts affect women's sexual experiences? -- Do romantic scripts lead to sexual dysfunction? -- Sexuality in social context -- Controlling women's sexuality -- Attractiveness and sexual desirability -- Disability and sexuality -- Is sex talk sexist? -- Studs and sluts : is there still a double standard? -- Silencing women's desire -- Violence in close relationships -- Dating violence -- Sexual coercion and acquaintance rape -- Making a difference -- Ending relationship violence -- Sex as a subject, not an object -- Exploring further -- 9. Commitments : women and close relationships -- Marriage -- Who marries and when? -- Who marries whom? -- "Marrying up" and "marrying down" : the marriage gradient -- Varieties of marriage -- Power in marriage -- Happily ever after? Marital satisfaction and psychological adjustment -- What make a marriage last? -- Lesbian couples -- Lesbian and heterosexual couples compared -- What are the characteristics of enduring lesbian relationships? -- Power in lesbian relationships -- Satisfaction in lesbian relationships -- Cohabiting couples -- Who cohabits and why? -- Does living together affect later marriage? -- Ending the commitment : divorce and separation -- What are the causes and consequences of divorce? -- Breaking up : when relationships end without divorce -- Remarriage -- Domestic violence : the psychological and physical abuse of women -- Recognizing a hidden problem -- Making a difference -- Ending domestic violence -- Equality and commitment -- Exploring further -- 10. Mothering -- Images of mothers and motherhood -- The decision to have a child -- Why do women choose to have children? -- The motherhood mandate -- Childless by choice or circumstance? -- How does society restrict women's choices? -- Technology and choice -- The transition to motherhood -- How does motherhood change work and marital roles? -- Do mothers face impossible ideals? -- Sexuality and motherhood -- Psychological effects of bodily changes during pregnancy -- How do others react to pregnant women? -- Motherhood and women's identity -- The event of childbirth -- How is the meaning of childbirth socially constructed? -- Is childbirth a medical crisis? -- Family-centered childbirth -- Depression following childbirth : why? -- Experiences of mothering -- Teen mothers -- Single mothers -- Black mothers and the matriarchal myth -- Lesbian mothers -- Commonalities -- Making a difference -- Transforming social policy : redefining family values -- Transforming social meanings : redefining parenthood -- Exploring further -- 11. Work and achievement -- If she isn't pad, is it still work? -- Housework : the double day -- Relational work : keeping everybody happy -- Status work : the two-person career -- What are the costs and benefits of invisible work? -- Working hard for a living : women in the paid workforce -- Sex segregation -- Women's work as extension of family roles : "it's only natural" -- The wage gap -- Doing gender in the workplace -- Attributions for success and failure -- Devaluing women's performance -- Discrimination in hiring and promotion -- Social reactions to token women -- Role models and mentors -- Leadership : do women do it differently? -- Sexual harassment from nine to five -- Defining sexual harassment -- The prevalence of harassment -- What are the causes of harassment? -- The consequences of harassment -- Women's career development : are there obstacles from within? -- Do women have different values and interests? -- Are women less motivated to achieve? -- Exceptional work lives -- Achievement in the professions -- Blue-collar women -- Putting it all together : work and family -- What are the costs of the balancing act? -- What are the benefits of the balancing act? -- Making a difference : women, work, and social policy -- Exploring further -- 12. The second half : midlife and aging -- Not just a number : the social meanings of age -- Is there a double standard of aging? -- Ageism -- Cross-cultural differences -- Self-identity and social identity -- Images of older women -- Invisibility -- Grannies and witches : stereotypes of older women -- The effects of age stereotypes -- In an aging woman's body -- Physical health in middle and later life -- Menopause and hormone replacement therapy -- Constructing the object of desire -- Exercise, sport, and fitness -- Sexuality in middle and later life -- Relationships : Continuity and change -- Friends and family -- Becoming a grandmother -- Caregiving : its costs and rewards -- Work and achievement -- Women in their prime -- Retirement -- Vulnerabilities of middle and later life -- Loss of a life partner -- Poverty -- Elder abuse -- Making a difference -- Transforming society : elder activism -- Transforming social interaction : taking charge of the second half -- Transforming ourselves : resisting ageism -- Exploring further -- pt. 5. Gender and well being -- 13. Psychological disorders, therapy, and women's well-being / chapter contributed by Britain Scott -- Sexist bias in defining disorders -- The social construction of abnormality -- Women's behavior as abnormal -- The diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) -- Blaming women for distress and disorders -- Gender-linked psychological disorders -- Why are there sex-related differences in the rates of some disorders? -- Which disorders are diagnosed more frequently in women? -- Sexist bias in the treatment of psychological disorders -- Institutionalizing women -- Mediating women -- Traditional psychotherapy -- Feminist therapy -- Conducting feminist therapy -- Feminist therapy for a diversity of women -- Evaluating feminist therapy -- Making a difference -- Transforming ourselves : finding a feminist therapist -- Transforming social relations : challenging the "crazy woman" stereotype -- Transforming society : promoting women's psychological well-being -- Exploring further -- Films -- 14. Making a difference : toward a better future for women -- Contemporary feminism -- The backlash against feminism -- Negative images of feminists -- Feminism as a "woman's problem" -- Women's attitudes toward feminism -- Feminist psychology and social change -- The changing face of psychology -- Image a world... -- What can one student do? |
| Responsibility: | Mary Crawford. |
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