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100 1 $aRider, Elizabeth A.
245 10 $aOur voices :$bpsychology of women /$cElizabeth A. Rider.
260 $aBelmont, CA :$bWadsworth,$cc2000.
300 $axv, 608 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [559]-591) and indexes.
505 0 $aDiversity Topics -- Foundations for a Psychology of Women -- All the Women in the World -- How They Differ -- What They Share -- Real Life: Life in Rural Africa -- Historical Overview -- Early Women's Movements -- Women's Movements Today -- Feminism -- Psychology Views Women -- Women's Contributions to Psychology -- Current Status of Women in Psychology -- Women's Psychology: A Unique Field -- Psychology of Women and the Study of Gender -- Will the Field Remain Relevant? -- Points to Keep in Mind -- Meaning Is Relative -- Gender and Context Are Inseparable -- Biases Are Everywhere -- Individuals Vary More Than Groups -- There's an Exception to Every Rule -- Socialization and Culture Are Crucial to Gender -- Studying Women and Gender -- Traditional Research Methods -- Experimental Methods -- Quasi-Experimental Methods -- Correlational Methods -- Evaluating Traditional Methods -- Nonsexist Research Methods -- Feminist Methods -- Concerns with Traditional Research -- Featured Study: Feminist Study of Menopause -- Organizing Themes -- Integrating the Approaches -- Research on Gender Differences -- Are Males and Females Really So Different? -- How Are Differences Detected? -- Commentary: The Practical Significance of Gender Differences -- Where Do We Stand on Comparative Gender Research? -- Explaining Gender -- Psychodynamic Theories -- Freud and Biological Identity -- Evaluation -- Commentary: Phyllis Freud Turns the Tables -- Post- and Neo-Freudians -- Social-Learning Theory -- Reinforcement and Imitation -- Evaluation -- Cognitive Theories -- Cognitive-Developmental Theory -- Featured Study: Gender Awareness in Children -- Gender Schema Theory -- Social-Role Theory -- Structured Social Roles -- Evaluation -- Feminist Perspectives -- Gender as Social Construction -- Evaluation -- Critique: How Well Do the Theories Do? -- How Biology Affects Gender -- Genetics -- Gender Determination -- Genetic Complications -- Sex Hormones -- Gender Categories -- Prenatal Development -- Consequences of Prenatal Hormonal Conditions -- Hormones and Development -- Commentary: Are There Five Sexes? -- Hormones and Behavior -- The Brain -- Hormonal Influences -- Hemispheric Lateralization -- Sex and Brain Size -- Biological Theories of Gender -- Biosocial Theory -- Featured Study: Mistakes of Gender and Gender Identity -- Evolutionary Psychology -- Assigning Roles to Women -- Family Socialization -- Do You Want a Boy or a Girl? -- Parents and Babies -- Who Does What? -- Girl's World, Boy's World -- Racial and Cultural Variations -- How Strong Is Parental Influence? -- Gender Roles Across the Life Span -- Teachers and Schools -- Media -- Television -- Commentary: An African American Perspective of TV -- Featured Study: Gender Stereotypes in Disney Films -- Newspapers -- Magazines and Books -- Other Media -- Media Representations of the Female Body -- Commentary: What Do We Learn from Barbie? -- Play and Sports -- Play Group Structure -- Athletic Organizations -- Communicating -- Women's Talk ... Men's Talk -- Do Women Really Talk a Lot? -- Interrupting -- Intonation and Pitch -- Standard Speech -- Tentative Speech -- Pointedness -- Research Limitations -- Women, Men, and Language -- Featured Study: Culture, Gender, and Conversation -- Commentary: Guess What-Women Are Funny! -- The Other Ways We Communicate -- Eye Gaze -- Touch -- Facial Expressions -- Personal Space, Posture, and Appearance -- Women's "Intuition" -- How Language Represents Women -- The Normative Male -- The Pejorative Woman -- Language and Thought -- Commentary: What's in a Title? -- Gender-Inclusive Language -- Reasoning About the World -- Are Women as Smart as Men? -- Gender and Variability of Scores -- Race and Culture -- The Cognitive Abilities of Women and Men -- Those Famous Verbal Abilities -- Those Infamous Math Scores -- Ethnic Variations -- Spatially Different? -- Commentary: Single-Sex Classes? -- What We Remember -- Explaining Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities -- Achievement -- Motivations -- Explaining the Successes and the Failures -- Featured Study: Are Girls "Helpless" When It Comes to Computers? -- Self-Confidence -- Ethnic and Cultural Differences -- Reasoning Morally -- Kohlberg's Theory -- Gilligan's Response -- Work -- Where Do Women Work? -- What Do You Want to Be? -- Traditional Careers -- Nontraditional Careers -- Eccles' Model of Occupational Choice -- Discrimination -- Hiring Practices -- Financial Inequities -- Featured Study: How Much Do You Think You Should Earn? -- Comparable Worth -- Promotion Practices -- Affirmative Action -- Combining Employment with Family -- Women's Expectations -- Maternity Leave -- Real Life: I Want a Career and I Want a Family ... -- Housework -- Well-Being -- When a Woman Retires -- Earnings -- Adjustment -- Personality and Social Interactions -- Aspects of Personality -- Five-Factor Model -- Levinson's Life Structure -- Stone Center's Relational Theory -- Power and Behavior -- Aggression -- Commentary: Crossing the Line -- Assertiveness -- Competition -- Leadership -- Featured Study: Identity and Leadership in Cross-Cultural Contexts -- Prosocial Behaviors -- Who Empathizes? -- Who Helps? -- Who Nurtures? -- Who is Swayed? -- Other Components of Personality -- Self-esteem -- Emotions -- Friendship -- Women Who Are Friends -- Real Life: African American and White Lesbian Friendships -- Men and Women Can Be Friends -- Real Life: Guy Friends -- Contemporary Life -- Dating and Commitment -- Selecting a Partner -- Dating Scripts -- Commentary: Dating by "The Rules" -- Marriage and Partnerships -- Is Love Important? -- Different Versions of Marriage -- Is Marriage Satisfying -- Infidelity -- Living Together: Significant Others -- Divorce or Separation -- What Causes Divorce? -- The Consequences for Women -- Featured Study: Racial Differences in Reaction and Coping with Separation and Divorce -- Having Children -- Why We Have Children -- What We Expect -- The Realities of Motherhood -- Variations on Child Rearing: Single, Minority, Lesbian Motherhood -- Parenthood Changes Marriage -- Real Life: The Motherhood Experience -- Childcare Issues -- Staying Single -- Why We Stay Single -- Its Disadvantages -- Its Advantages -- Lesbians -- Labels Confine Our Perceptions -- Stereotyping Lesbians -- Lesbians in Relationships -- Commentary: Same-Sex Marriages -- Health and Reproduction -- Toward a Health Care System for Women -- Gender Bias -- Racial Bias -- Overall Health and Fitness -- Weight -- Poor and Minority Women -- Problems Women Face -- Heart Disease Is Not Just for Men -- The Insidious Killer, Lung Cancer -- The Once Silent Epidemic, Breast Cancer -- Real Life: When Cancer Strikes -- Other "Female" Cancers -- The Menstrual Cycle -- Menarche and Puberty -- Commentary: If Men Could Menstruate -- "Female" Problems -- Pregnancy -- Fertility and Infertility -- How We Feel, How They Feel -- Real Life: Being Pregnant -- The Teenage Pregnancy Epidemic -- Childbirth -- The Stages of Labor -- Cesarean Delivery -- Postpartum Adjustment -- Abortion -- Psychological Reactions -- Menopause -- Physical Changes -- Psychological Reactions -- Sexuality -- Sexuality and Our Beliefs -- Conducting Research -- Commentary: Sexology and Feminism -- An Entrenched Double Standard -- Emerging Sexuality -- Infancy and Childhood -- Learning about Sex -- Adolescence -- Real Life: Sexual Experiences -- Explaining Sexual Behaviors: Script Theory -- Adult Sexuality -- Ethnic Variations -- The Middle Years and Beyond -- Lesbian Sexuality -- Biology or Culture? -- Contraception -- Methods -- Real Life: Who Should Be Responsible for Contraception? -- Use and Nonuse -- Featured Study: "When You Carry Condoms All the Boys Think You Want It" -- Sexual Problems -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Sexual Dysfunctions -- Violence in Women's Lives -- Rape -- Just How Prevalent Is Rape? -- Myths and Scripts -- Stranger Rape -- Commentary: The "Rape" of Mr. Smith -- Acquaintance and Date Rape -- Marital or Relationship Rape -- The Consequences -- Recovery -- Real Life: The Aftermath of Date Rape -- Real Life: Helping Someone Who Has Been Raped Heal -- Men Who Rape -- Preventing Rape -- Incest -- Childhood Sexual Abuse -- The Effects Last a Lifetime -- Battering -- The Victims -- The Abusers -- Social Conditions -- The Cycle of Abuse -- Why Do Some Women Stay? -- Featured Study: Attachment Histories of Abusers -- Harassment -- Definition and Types -- At Work -- At School -- Among Peers -- The Effects of Harassment -- Mental Health -- Diagnosis -- What Constitutes "Good" Mental Health? -- A New View of Mental Health -- Diagnostic Criteria -- Gender Bias -- Racial and Cultural Biases -- Depression: Beyond Sadness -- Diagnosis and Characteristics -- Explaining Gender Differences -- Real Life: The Beast -- Anxiety Disorders -- Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks -- Eating Disorders -- Anorexia -- Real Life: Wasted -- Bulimia -- Prognosis -- Substance Abuse -- Tobacco -- Alcohol and Other Drugs -- Therapy -- Traditional Approaches -- Nonsexist Therapy -- Feminist Therapy -- Racial and Cultural Issues -- The Importance of Gender -- Common Themes.
650 0 $aWomen$xPsychology.
650 0 $aWomen$xSocial conditions$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aSex role$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aFeminist psychology.
948 $a02/27/2001$b03/20/2001
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