Lectures on the Psychology of Women - Brossura

Chrisler, Joan C; Golden, Carla; Rozee, Patricia D

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073405442 ISBN 13: 9780073405445

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

Riassunto

This unique collection of previously unpublished essays by experienced teachers and leading experts in Psychology of Women is designed as a companion reader to any Psychology of Women textbook. The lectures included are written in an informal manner: the authors speak to students directly and address questions that students often ask.

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L'autore:

Joan C. Chrisler is Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Connecticut College. Dr. Chrisler has taught courses on the psychology of women since 1979 at Connecticut and at Mercy College and St. Thomas Aquinas College. She has published extensively on issues of women and gender, especially on women’s health, menstruation, weight, and body image.

Contenuti:

Lectures on the Psychology of Women (4th edition)

Preface

Introduction

I. Status of Women

1. Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality: From Biological Difference to Institutionalized Androcentrism

by Sandra Lipsitz Bem

2. Who's In and Who's Out: The Results of Oppression

by Ruth S. Ostenson

3. Poor Women in a Wealthy Nation

by Deborah Belle

4. Sex Discrimination at Work

by Faye J. Crosby

5. Feminist Perspectives on the Personal and Political Aspects of Mothering

by Diane M. Hall

6. Gender Socialization, or How Long a Way Has Baby Come?

by Susan Basow

II. Women's Bodies

7. Sweating It Out: The Good News and the Bad News about Women and Sport

by Ruth L. Hall

8. Women, Weight, and Body Image

by Christine A. Smith

9. The Intersexed and the Transgendered: Rethinking Sex/Gender

by Carla Golden

10. PMS as a Culture-bound Syndrome

by Joan C. Chrisler

11. Understanding Emotional Responses after Abortion

by Nancy Felipe Russo

12. Women with Disabilities

by Rhoda Olkin

13. The Health Risks of Being Black, Latina, Women, and/or Poor: Redefining Women's Health within the Context of Social Inequality

by Lisa Bowleg

III. Diversity of Women

14. Asian American Women and Adolescent Girls: Sexuality and Sexual Experession

by Connie S. Chan

15. Life as a Lesbian; What Does Gender Have to Do with It?

by Linda D. Garnets

16. Gender Issues Among Latinas

by Donna Castaneda

17. Triple Jeopardy in the Lives of Biracial Black/White Women

by Angela R. Gillem

18. Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, and Their Homegirls: Developing an "Oppositional Gaze" toward the Images of Black Women

by Carolyn M. West

19. Crossing the Color Line in Women's Friendships

by Suzanna M. Rose

IV. Violence against Women

20. Women's Fear of Rape: Causes, Consequences, and Coping

by Patricial D. Rozee

21. Women and Pornography: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

by Britain A. Scott

22. Battered Women: Why Don't They Just Leave?

by Geraldine B. Stahly

V. Women's Mental Health

23. Positive Aging for Women

by Mary Gergen

24. A Feminist Approach to Agoraphobia: Challenging Traditional Views of Women at Home

by Maureen C. McHugh

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073405442
• ISBN 13: 9780073405445
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 432