ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND GENDER, TWO-VOLUME SET, 1-2
Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender To order this title, and for more information, click here
Edited By Judith Worell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A.
Description The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields
of study in the social and behavioral sciences. Along the way, it was discovered that while women very often think and behave differently
than do men, industrialized societies cater to masculine perspectives. The "Psychology of Women" emerged as a field of study focusing
on just those areas in which women most often butted against assumed roles. And similarly, in the 1990s, the "Psychology of Men" emerged
to focus on the same issues for men.
The Encyclopedia of Gender covers all three areas under one cover, discussing psychological
differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, as well as biologically based differences and how those differences impact behavior.
Coverage includes studies of these differences in applied settings such as education, business, the home, in politics, sports competition,
etc.
Audience
Libraries, departments of psychology and sociology. Academic researchers in fields of social psychology, personality, sociology, clinical
psychology, and education.
Psychologists, social workers, educators, historians, women's studies faculty, psychiatrists, possibly attorneys
involved in litigation, medical personnel trying to understand some topic further, nurses in nursing education, etc
Contents Abortion and its Health Effects.
Academic Aspirations and Degree Attainment of Women.
Academic Environments.
Achievement.
Addictions and
Substance Abuse.
Adolescent Gender Development.
Affirmative Action.
Aggression and Gender.
Aging.
Agoraphobia.
AIDS/HIV.
Androcentism
(in theories, language, research, workplace, family).
Anger.
Anxiety.
Assertiveness.
Battering in Adult Relationships.
Beauty Politics
and Patriarchy: The Impact on Women's Lives.
Biological Factors in Development.
Body Image Concerns.
Career Achievement: Opportunities
and Barriers.
Child Abuse: Physical and Sexual.
Child Care: Options and Outcomes.
Chronic Illness Adjustment.
Classroom and School Climate.
Computers and Technology.
Counseling and Psychotherapy: Gender, Race, and Cultural Issues.
Cross-Cultural Gender Roles.
Cross-Cultural
Sexual Practices.
Depression.
Diagnosis of Psychological Disorders: DSM and Gender.
Disabilites and Women: Deconstructing Myths and Reconstructing
Realities.
Divorce and Child Custody.
Eating Disorders.
Emotional Abuse in Women.
Empathy and Emotional Expressivity.
Entitlement.
Family
Roles and Patterns, Contemporary Trends.
Feminist Approaches to Psychotherapy.
Feminist Family Therapy.
Feminist Movement.
Feminist Theories.
Friendship Styles.
Gender Development: Evolutionary Perspectives.
Gender Development: Gender Schema Theories.
Gender Development: Psychoanalytic
Perspectives.
Gender Development: Social Learning.
Gender Difference Research: Cognitive Abilities.
Gender Difference Research: Issues
and Critique.
Gender Difference Research: Personality.
Gender Stereotypes.
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation.
Hate Crimes.
Health and Health Care: How Gender Makes Women Sick.
Health Care Policy.
Health Risks and Gender.
History of the Psychology of Gender.
Humor.
Imprisonment.
Individualism and Collectivism.
Intimacy and Love.
Leadership.
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals in Relationships.
Life
Satisfaction.
Marriage: Hers and His.
Media Influences.
Media Stereotypes.
Media Violence.
Men and Masculinity.
Menopause.
Menstruation.
Mentoring and Feminist Mentoring.
Methods for Studying Gender.
Midlife Transitions.
Military Women.
Moral Development.
Motherhood: Decisions
and Outcomes.
Parenting.
Play Patterns and Gender.
Political Behavior.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Poverty.
Power: Personal and Social
Dimensions.
Pregnancy and Childbirth.
Prejudice.
Prostitution and the Commercial Sex Industry.
Rape.
Recovered Memories.
Reproductive
Technologies.
Safer Sex Behaviors.
Self Esteem.
Self-Fulfilling Prophesies.
Sexual Concerns.
Sexual Harassment.
Sexual Misconduct by
Psychotherapists.
Sexuality and Sexual Desire.
Sexuality Education.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Their Consequences.
Single Sex
Schools.
Social Construction Theory.
Social Identity.
Social Role Theory of Sex Differences and Similarities.
Social Support Systems.
Sport and Athletics.
Stress and Coping.
Test Bias.
Torture and War Crimes.
Trauma Across Diverse Settings.
Women in Non-traditional Work
Fields.
Work-Family Balance.
Working Environments.
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