Lectures on the Psychology of Women

Joan C. Chrisler is Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Connecticut College. Dr. Chrisler has taught courses on the psychology of women since 1979 at Connecticut and at Mercy College and St. Thomas Aquinas College. She has published extensively on issues of women and gender, especially on womens health, menstruation, weight, and body image. Carla Golden is Associate Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College. Dr. Golden has taught courses on the psychology of women and gender since 1977 at Ithaca, Smith College, and the University of Pittsburghs Semester at Sea Program. She has published and lectured widely on feminist psychoanalytic theories and on the development of womens sexuality. Patricia D. Rozee is Associate Professor of Psychology and Womens Studies at California State University at Long Beach. Dr. Rozee has taught courses on the psychology of women since 1983 and has conducted research on a variety of womens issues. She is best known for work on trauma, abuse, and psychosomatic blindness in Cambodian women immigrants.

*indicates new to this editionPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Status of Women1: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality: From Biological Difference to Institutionalized Androcentrism, Sandra Lipsitz Bem2: Who’s In and Who’s Out: The Results of Oppression, Ruth S. Ostenson3: Poor Women in a Wealthy Nation – Deborah Belle*4: Gender Dynamic in the Classroom, Susan A. BasowPart II: Women’s Bodies5: Sweating It Out: The Good News and the Bad News about Women and Sport, Ruth L. Hall6: Women, Weight, and Body Image, Christine Smith7: The Intersexed and the Transgendered: Rethinking Sex/Gender, Carla Golden8: PMS as a Culture-Bound Syndrome, Joan C. Chrisler9: Understanding Emotional Responses after Abortion, Nancy Felipe Russo10: Women with Disabilities, Rhoda Olkin*Part III: Diversity of Women11: Asian American Women and Adolescent Girls: Sexuality and Sexual Expression, Connie S. Chan12: Life as a Lesbian: What Does Gender Have to Do with It?, Linda D. Garnets13: Appreciating Cultural Difference: On Being an American Jewish Woman, Kayla Miriyam Weiner14: Gender Issues among Latinas, Donna Castaneda15: Triple Jeopardy in the Lives of Biracial Black/White Women, Angela M. Gillem16: Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Developing an “Oppositional Gaze” Toward the Images of Black Women, Carolyn M. West17: Crossing the Color Line in Women’s Friendships, Suzanna M. RosePart IV: Violence Against Women18: Women’s Fear of Rape: Causes, Consequences, and Copine, Patrica D. Rozee19: Women and Pornography: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us, Britain A. Scott20: Battered Women: Why Don’t They Just Leave?, Geraldine Butts Stahly21: Sexual Harassment of College Students: Cultural Similarities and Differences, Michele A. PaludiPart V: Women’s Mental Health22: The Politics of Psychology of “False Memory Syndrome”, Carolyn Zerbe Enns23: A Feminist Approach to Agoraphobia: Challenging Traditional Views of Women at Home, Maureen C. McHugh