Women and Gender, Third Edition
Table of Contents
1 The Power of Difference: The Need to Forge Human Connections
Psychology of Women Today: Pressing Pause
Feminist Research: Playing Forward
What We Know About Gender Differences
3 Sex&Gender&Sexuality: Intersecting Continua
Biology, Difference, and Power
4 Growing Up: Learning to Be Ourselves in a Gender-Polarized World
Difference: Girls Will Be Girls
Explaining Differences
Children's Relationships: Psychoanalysis
Children's Learning: Socialization Theories
Social Cognitive Theory
Differential Treatment by Socializing Agents
Dynamic Learning
An Integrated Understanding
Breaking the Cycle
5 Changes Across the Life Course: Women's Lives from Adolescence through
Old Age
Young Adulthood: Choosing Motherhood
Midlife: Ups and Downs
6 Individuals and Social Contexts: Looking Beyond Gender Differences
Intragroup Diversity
Individual Differences
Social Context
The Impact of Social Contexts on Women and Men
Status and Social Context
7 Sexism: Sexist Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Gender Stereotypes
Sexist Stereotyping
Sexist Prejudice
Perpetuating Sexist Stereotyping
Reducing Stereotyping
Sexist Discrimination
8 Women's Multiple Roles: Achieving Satisfaction in Close Relationships
Multiple Roles
Close Relationships
Friendships
Romantic Attachments
Caregiving
9 Multiple Roles Continued: Work, Wages, and Closing the Gap
The Meaning of Work
The Wage Gap
Causes of the Wage Gap
Closing the Wage Gap
10 Women's Bodies: Objects of Appearance
Gender Differences in Body Image
Measuring Body Consciousness
Objectification Theory
Self-Objectification
Causes of Self-Objectification
Consequences of Self-Objectification
Resisting Self-Objectification
11 Women's Physical Health and Well-Being: Understudied, Mythologized,
but Changing
Health Psychology
Sexuality and Reproductive Health
12 Women's Mental Health and Well-Being: From "Mental Disorders" to
Feminist Practice
Gendered Patterns in DSM Diagnoses
DSM Definitions
Not All Biology
Not All Intrapsychic
13 Male Violence Against Girls and Women: Linking Fears of Violence,
Harassment, Rape, and Abuse
14 Making a Difference: Transforming Ourselves, Our Relationships, and
Our Society
Personal Empowerment
Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Index