Synopses & Reviews
This text begins with the premise that everything we think we know about human beings is shaped and limited by our own culture and experience. Its aim is to show students how gender-related expectations interact with other cultural assumptions and stereotypes, as well as with social and economic conditions, to affect womens experiences and behavior. The text also describes the ways in which womens lives differ between cultures. Featuring more coverage of diversity within the U.S. culture, the thoroughly updated third edition is accompanied by an updated online edition of Cheryl Rickabaughs Sex and Gender workbook.
Synopsis
This is the first psychology of women textbook to present an in-depth introduction to the diversity of women in cross-cultural perspective. Using a narrative approach, the text describes the ways in which cultures, including American culture, shape womens experiences. The text focuses on the diversity and the commonality of womens experiences through research carried out by scholars outside the United States, or outside the mainstream within the United States.
About the Author
Hilary M. Lips was born in Canada and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Windsor. After earning her doctorate at Northwestern University, she taught at the University of Winnipeg for a number of years where she developed a course on the psychology of gender and helped initiate the Womens Studies program. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Arizonas Southwest Institute for Research on Women, the University of South Florida, The University of Costa Rica, and the Institute for Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is the author of a number of books and articles about the psychology of women and gender, including Sex and Gender: An Introduction, Fourth Edition (Mayfield, 2001) and Women, Men, and Power (Mayfield 1991). She now teaches in the Psychology Department at Radford University, Virginia, where she is also Director of the Center for Gender Studies and director of the Womens Studies program.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Why a Global, Multicultural Psychology of WomenChapter 2: Female-Male Comparisons: The Meaning and Significance of DifferenceChapter 3: Growing up Female: The Female Body and its MeaningsChapter 4: Growing up Female II: Expectations, Images, and IdentitiesChapter 5: Getting the Message: Self-Confidence, Assertiveness, and EntitlementChapter 6: Connections: Communicating with and Relating to OthersChapter 7: Family and Intimate RelationshipsChapter 8: Womens WorkChapter 9: Physical Health, Illness, and HealingChapter 10: Mental Health, Illness, and TherapyChapter 11: Myths and Scripts for Women Growing OlderChapter 12: SexualitiesChapter 13: Violence Against Women: A Worldwide ProblemChapter 14: Leadership, Power, and Social Change