Women and gender : a feminist psychology

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Women and gender : a feminist psychology

Rhoda Unger, Mary Crawford

McGraw-Hill, c1992

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Women & gender

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Cover title: Women & gender

Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-683) and index

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Description

Written by two scholars in the feminist community, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the psychology of women. By supplementing its strong base of psychological theory and research with sociological, anthropological and historical material, the text attempts to present diverse and thorough consideration of female experience. This book also emphasizes the diversity of women's lives. Aspects of race, class and sexual orientation are integrated into every chapter. This book should be of interest to the psychology of women course offered in psychology, sociology and women's studies departments.

Table of Contents

  • Approaches to understanding girls and women
  • the meanings of difference - sex, gender and cognitive abilities
  • images of women
  • "Doing Gender" - sex, status and power
  • biological influences on sex and gender
  • becoming gendered - childhood
  • adolescence - becoming a woman
  • sex, love and romance
  • commitments - women and long term relationships
  • motherhood - image, institution and experience
  • women, work and achievement
  • midlife and beyond
  • violence against girls and women
  • psychological adjustment - dysfunction and therapy.

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