Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology

By: Unger, RhodaContributor(s): Crawford, MaryMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : McGraw-Hill Companies, ©1996Description: xv, 683 pISBN: 9780070659421ISSN: 0070659427 Subject(s): Women | Women in developmentDDC classification: 305.4
Contents:
1. Introduction to a Feminist Psychology of Women -- 2. Approaches to Understanding Girls and Women -- 3. The Meanings of Difference: Sex, Gender, and Cognitive Abilities -- 4. Images of Women -- 5. Doing Gender: Sex, Status, and Power -- 6. Biological Aspects of Sex and Gender -- 7. Becoming Gendered: Childhood -- 8. Becoming a Woman: Puberty and Adolescence -- 9. Sex, Love, and Romance -- 10. Commitments: Women and Long-Term Relationships -- 11. Mothering -- 12. Work and Achievement -- 13. Midlife and Beyond -- 14. Violence Against Women -- 15. Gender and Psychological Disorders.
Summary: 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
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1. Introduction to a Feminist Psychology of Women --
2. Approaches to Understanding Girls and Women --
3. The Meanings of Difference: Sex, Gender, and Cognitive Abilities --
4. Images of Women --
5. Doing Gender: Sex, Status, and Power --
6. Biological Aspects of Sex and Gender --
7. Becoming Gendered: Childhood --
8. Becoming a Woman: Puberty and Adolescence --
9. Sex, Love, and Romance --
10. Commitments: Women and Long-Term Relationships --
11. Mothering --
12. Work and Achievement --
13. Midlife and Beyond --
14. Violence Against Women --
15. Gender and Psychological Disorders.

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

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