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Transformations: Women, Gender, and Psychology

ISBN10: 1260803651 | ISBN13: 9781260803655

Transformations: Women, Gender, and Psychology
ISBN10: 1260803651
ISBN13: 9781260803655
By Mary Crawford

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Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology explores the many transformations, including developmental transformations of a gendered life and transformations in psychology.  Transformations presents a broad, comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding how the lives of all people, but particularly the lives of girls and women, are shaped by gender. Students are introduced to the concepts of feminism, multiculturalism, diversity and intersexuality.

PART 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Paving the Way

PART 2 GENDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Chapter 2 Gender, Status, and Power
Chapter 3 Images of Women
Chapter 4 The Meanings of Difference

PART 3 GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 5 Sex, Gender, and Bodies
Chapter 6 Gendered Identities: Childhood and Adolescence

PART 4 GENDERED LIFE PATHS
Chapter 7 Sexuality, Love, and Romance
Chapter 8 Commitments: Women and Close Relationships
Chapter 9 Mothering
Chapter 10 Work and Achievement
Chapter 11 The Second Half: Midlife and Aging

PART 5 GENDER AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 12 Violence against Women
Chapter 13 Psychological Disorders, Therapy, and Women’s Well-Being
Chapter 14 Making a Difference: Toward a Better Future for Women

Name Index
Subject Index





About the Author

Mary Crawford

Mary Crawford is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. She has taught the psychology of women and gender for twenty-five years, most of that time at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where she earned the Trustee’s Achievement Award for lifetime professional accomplishment. She has also held the Jane W. Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies at Hamilton College, served as Distinguished Visiting Teacher/Scholar at Trenton State College at The College of New Jersey, and directed the graduate program in women’s studies at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Delaware. Professor Crawford is a consulting editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly, an associate editor of Feminism and Psychology, and a Fellow of both the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Mary Crawford has spoken and written about women’s studies issues for audiences as diverse as the British Psychological Society, Ms. Magazine, and the Oprah Winfrey show. Works she has authored or edited include: Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives (1989); Talking Difference: On Gender and Language (1995); Gender Differences and Human Cognition (1997); Coming Into Her Own: Education Successes in Girls and Women (1999) and a special double issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly (1999) on innovative methods for feminist research.

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