A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity
Second Edition
Hilary M. Lips, Radford University
0-767-2984-2, 2003, 477 pp., McGraw-Hill
available August 2002
This is the first psychology of women textbook to present an in-depth introduction to the diversity of women in cross-cultural perspective. Using a narrative approach, the text describes the ways in which cultures, including American culture, shape women's experiences. The text focuses on the diversity and the commonality of women's experiences through research carried out by scholars outside the United States, or outside the mainstream within the United States.
New Features:
Three new box programs: profiles on "Women Shaping Psychology;" "Learning Activities"; and "Making Change."
New pedagogy for each chapter: Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, and Web Resources
New Glossary
"Women at Work," formerly chapter 13, is now chapter 8, placing this material next to chapter 7, on families, and making a more logical transition into work-family issues
All material has been updated to reflect the latest research. Coverage of many topics has been expanded, including work-family balance, poverty, ethnicity in relation to intimate and family relationships, contraception, hormone replacement therapy, a more fully developed discussion of logical positivism, essentialism, and social constructionism, and ethnicity as it relates to self-esteem.
New topics covered include evolutionary theory, mother-daughter relationships, feminist issues in research, hostile and benevolent sexism, the universality of gender stereotypes across cultures, the Internet as a media influence, and forced prostitution and sex slavery.
Proven Features:
Strong focus throughout on the diversity and the commonality of women's experiences, and how culture shapes common barriers for women, and the variety of ways in which women in diverse cultural groups confront these challenges.
Cross-cultural perspective. The experiences of diverse women are treated as important in their own right, not held up against a standard based on white, middle-class America.
Diversity of scholarship. An important of the text is research conducted by scholars outside the United States, or outside the mainstream within the United States. Including this research helps students see what issues and approaches are considered important in other cultures.
Coverage of essential topics in the psychology of women course, including gender development, leadership and power, women and intimate relationships, women at work, women's sexuality, women as they age, and women's mental health, are surveyed with culture as their organizing focus.
Supplements:
Instructor's Manual/Test Bank and selected powerpoint slides for each chapter on CD-ROM (dual platform)
Author Biography:
Hilary M. Lips was born in Canada and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Windsor. After earning her doctorate at Northwestern University, she taught at the University of Winnipeg for a number of years where she developed a course on the psychology of gender and helped initiate the Women's Studies program. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women, the University of South Florida, The University of Costa Rica, and the Institute for Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Recently she gave a series of lectures in New Zealand as a recipient of a Distinguished American Scholar award from the New Zealand-U.S. Education Foundation. She is the author of a number of books and articles about the psychology of women and gender, including Sex & Gender: An Introduction, Fourth Edition (Mayfield, 2001) and Women, Men, and Power (Mayfield 1991). She now teaches in the Psychology Department at Radford University, Virginia, where she is also Director of the Center for Gender Studies and of the Women's Studies Program. For more detailed information, click on:
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