Gender: The Basics: 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138036895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 310 str.

Hilary Lips

Opis

Revised edition of the author's Gender, c2014.

Spis treści

1. Gender: everybody has/does one

2. Theoretical frameworks for thinking about gender

3. Power, inequalities, and prejudice

4. Relationships, intimacy, and sexualities

5. The gendered workplace

6. Gender, leadership, and public life

7. Global patterns of gender-related violence

8. Global patterns of gender and health

9. The shape of our future: gender and the aging population

Epilogue: the future of gender

Glossary

Index

O autorze

Hilary M. Lips is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia, USA, where she served for many years as Chair of the Psychology Department, and Director of the Center for Gender Studies. She was born in Canada, completed her graduate education at Northwestern University in the USA, and taught at the University of Winnipeg in Canada for 15 years before accepting a position at Radford University. During her career, she has spent time as a visiting scholar in Costa Rica, China, and New Zealand. The author of numerous articles and two current textbooks in the psychology of women and gender, she is a social psychologist, whose research has focused on the intersections of gender, power, and self-perceptions, and on the gender pay gap.