Women and gender : a feminist psychology
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Women and gender : a feminist psychology
McGraw-Hill, c1996
2nd ed
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Women & gender
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This new edition includes updated coverage on women and the workplace and features new information on: reproductive technologies; "in vitro" fertilization; surrogates; the quest for motherhood; biological motherhood; the false memory controversy; and eating disorders.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to a feminist psychology of women
- approaches to understanding girl and woman
- the meanings of difference - sex, gender and cognitive abilities
- images of women
- doing gender - sex, status and power
- biological aspects of sex and gender
- becoming gendered - childhood
- becoming woman - puberty and adolescence
- sex, love and romance
- commitments - women and long-term relationships
- mothering
- work and achievement
- midlife and beyond
- violence against women
- gender and psychological disorder
- summing up.
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