Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology

Mary Crawford is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Womens 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 Trustees Achievement Award for lifetime professional accomplishment. She has also held the Jane W. Irwin Chair in Womens 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 womens 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 womens 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.

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 Part 4. GENDERED LIFE PATHS 7. Sex, Love, and Romance 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