Transformations : women, gender & psychology / Mary Crawford. 6
By: Crawford, Mary 4 0 (Mary E.)16 [, ] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2012;copyright 201246Edition: Second EditionDescription: 24 cm. xxiii, 449, [70] pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780073532158 (paperback)ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Psychology. Women;Gender identity.;Feminist psychology.;Sex role.;Sex differences (Psychology);Social change. -- -- 20 -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | 155.333 LOC classification: | HQ1206 | .C733 20122Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Machine generated contents note: Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1. Paving the Way Part 2. GENDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT 2. Gender, Status, and Power 3. Images of Women 4. The Meanings of Difference Part 3. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Sex, Gender and Bodies 6. Gendered Identities: Childhood And Adolescence 7. Sex, Love, and Romance Part 4. GENDERED LIFE PATHS 8. Commitments: Women and Close Relationships 9. Mothering 10. Work and Achievement 11. The Second Half: Midlife and Aging Part 5. GENDER AND WELL-BEING 12. Violence Against Women 13. Psychological Disorders, Therapy, and Women's Well-Being 14. Making a Difference: Toward a Better Future for Women. 56
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Pt. 1. Paving the way. Beginnings -- What is feminism? -- Methods and values in psychological research.;Pt. 2. Gender in social context. Gender, status, and power -- Images of women -- The meanings of difference.;Pt. 3. Gender and development. Sex, gender, and bodies -- Gendered identities : childhood and adolescence.;Pt. 4. Gendered life paths. Sex, love, and romance -- Commitments : women and close relationships -- Mothering -- Work and achievement -- The second half : midlife and aging.;Pt. 5. Gender and well-being. Violence against women -- Psychological disorders, therapy, and women's well-being -- Making a difference : toward a better future for women.
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Provided by publisher. 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. Rather than conceiving gender as a collection of individual traits or attributes, this book presents gender as a social system that is used to categorize people and is linked to power and status. The gender system is analyzed throughout the book at three levels: sociocultural, interpersonal, and individual. Because conceptualizing gender as a social system is important from the start, the second chapter of the book is devoted to gender, status, and power. This chapter explains the gender system and how it works at each of the three levels and demonstrates how they are linked--
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