Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the lines of race, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation, pulling from the exciting new scholarship that has emerged over the last few years. Thoughtful discussion questions emphasize critical thinking skills, as well as encourage students to open a dialogue with both their professors and their peers. This text...
Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a develo...
Leonore Loeb Adler Florence L. Denmark Melvin Ember
Adler, Denmark, and their contributors examine the similarities and differences in violence in various countries around the world. Each chapter is written by a scholar who lived or resided in that specific country. The analysis seeks to survey the many varieties and types of violence within each individual country from an insider's point of view of the country.
The topic of violence has a long history that has been reported from all over the world. Violence occurs in all cultures and ecologies. It involves people of all ages in innumerable situations in a variety of occasions....
Adler, Denmark, and their contributors examine the similarities and differences in violence in various countries around the world. Each chapter is ...
- Provide up-to-date knowledge about the nature of school violence, its etiology, epidemiology, and impact
- Analyzes school violence through a multicultural and international perspective
- The lead editor, Florence Denmark, is an internationally-recognized scholar and former APA president and a recipient of the 2004 Gold Medal Awards for Life Achievement from the American Psychological Foundation (APF)
- Provide up-to-date knowledge about the nature of school violence, its etiology, epidemiology, and impact
Florence L. Denmark Herbert H. Krauss Esther Halpern
Drawing upon the expertise of a cadre of scholars and practitioners, this book has four parts: (1) conceptualizing violence and exploitation against females, (2) violence against girls and female adolescents, (3) violence against women, and (4) cultural and international perspectives on violence against women.
Contributors place violence against women and girls within a variety of cultural and religious perspectives and also present theories of violence, the role of stereotyping, and the effect of violence in the larger community. The recent emergence of cyber violence, particularly...
Drawing upon the expertise of a cadre of scholars and practitioners, this book has four parts: (1) conceptualizing violence and exploitation against f...
Leonore A. Loeb Florence L. Denmark Lenore E. A. Walker
Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. They find that it is present in practically every society, at every socioeconomic level, and in every age group. The first group of essays look at violence as a societal phenomenon--its motivational aspects as related to, for example, terrorism or machismo. The second group of essays discuss violence involving children--incest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths. The last section looks at adult...
Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms aroun...
In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of women helping women via a method that has become a "hot-button" topic nationwide--mentoring.
In "A Handbook for Women Mentors: Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity," an expert author team--all experienced mentors--provide specific strategies for women mentoring women, showing how mentoring relationships benefit individuals, women as a group, and the nation as a whole. Discussions include ongoing challenges--and potential pitfalls--for women confronting obstacles in...
In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of women helping women via a method that has be...
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant.
Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar concepts such as social roles, appearance, health, sexuality and transition through the related lenses of empowerment/restraint and quality of life/well-being for a deeper understanding of the...
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female...
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant.
Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar concepts such as social roles, appearance, health, sexuality and transition through the related lenses of empowerment/restraint and quality of life/well-being for a deeper understanding of the...
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female...
As societal gender standards continue to shift and the capabilities, strengths, and needs of women become more widely acknowledged and prioritized--even as myths regarding women's leadership, health, and work behavior persist--it becomes increasingly important to understand the psychology of women. This third edition of Psychology of Women provides updated and expanded coverage of this highly significant and relevant subject through diverse perspectives of internationally known scholars in their disciplines, offering synopses of recent research and examinations of key theoretical...
As societal gender standards continue to shift and the capabilities, strengths, and needs of women become more widely acknowledged and prioritized-...
Included among the topics: * * Turn ah-ha moments into pivotal learning.* The important role of women in social entrepreneurship.* Focus group becomes support group: women in educational leadership.
Included among the topics: * * Turn ah-ha moments into pivotal learning.* The important role of women in social entrepreneurship.* Focus gr...
