Representations: Social Constructions of Gender

Author:   Rhoda Unger
Publisher:   Baywood Publishing Company Inc
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9780895030528


Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 June 1989
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Rhoda Unger
Publisher:   Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Imprint:   Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780895030528


ISBN 10:   0895030527
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 June 1989
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword Introduction PART I: Women's Consciousness: Public and Private Images Sex in Psychological Paradigms--from Behavior to Cognition Rhoda Kesler Unger The Divided Lives of Women in Literature Katherine V. Pope E. Nesbit's Forty-First Year: Her Life, Times, and Symbolizations of Personality Growth Ravenna Helson Telling Our Mother's Story: Changing Daughters' Perceptions of Their Mothers in a Women's Studies Course Karen G. Howe Case Studies of Agency and Communion in Women's Lives Abigail J. Stewart and Janet E. Malley A Case of Feminist Transformation: A Constructivist-Developmental Perspective Diedrick Snoek Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Sex Role Stereotypes as Expectations for Behavior Shelagh M.J. Towson, Mark P. Zanna, and Glenda MacDonald PART II: The Construction of Women (and Men) Personal Construct Theory and Stimulus Sex and Subject Sex Differences Susan Z. Volentine and Stanley L. Brodsky Conceptual and Methodological Sources of Controversies about Androgyny Mary Anne Sedney A Sense of Humor Leigh Marlowe Humor in Conversational Context: Beyond Biases in the Study of Gender and Humor Mary Crawford Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian Women: Critical Perspectives on Constructing Collaborative Research M. Brinton Lykes Coping with Rape: Critical Perspectives on Consciousness Michelle Fine PART III: Innovative Strategies for Examining Social Constructs Explorations in Feminist Ideology: Surprising Consistencies and Unexamined Conflicts Rhoda K. Unger Taking the Traditional Route: Some Covert Costs of Traditional Decisions for the Married Career Woman Audrey Sanders, Janice M. Steil, and Janet Weinglass Perceptions of Daily Life Scripts and Their Effects on College Women's Desires for Children Irene Hanson Frieze, Scott Bailey, Patricia Mamula, and Mira Moss Earliest Memories: Sex Differences and the Meaning of Experience Adria E. Schwartz She Has Her Reasons: Women's Explanations for Job Changes Marianne LaFrance PART IV: Dichotomizing Sex and Gender: The Use of Fiction Initiative Taking as a Determinant of Role-Reciprocal Organization Bertram A. John and Lori E. Sussman Androgyny and the Life Cycle: The Bacchae of Euripides Nancy Datan The Pier Glass and the Candle: Reality, Perception, and Gender in the Fiction of George Eliot Joan E. Hartman Imaging Feminist Visions: Comments on a Bibliography Michelle Fine, Louise Kidder, and Joanne Boell The Social Construction of Gender: The Turn to Fiction Sondra Farganis Biographies of Authors

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RHODA UNGER received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University in 1966, but has worked in the area of the psychology of sex and gender since the early 1970s. She is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Honors Program at Montclair State College and has also served several terms as coordinator of women's studies.

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