The Gender and Psychology Reader

Book Overview

In The Gender and Psychology Reader, Blythe McVicker Clinchy and Julie K. Norem have culled through a diverse group of readings to provide a wide-ranging exploration of both progress made and problems encountered as psychologists grapple with gender. The volume includes both classic and contemporary readings, drawn from all branches of psychology-- social, developmental, personality, cognitive, history, physiological/biological--as well as from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715478
• ISBN13: 9780814715475
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Contains writings by 60 authors

This co-edited collection contains 41 chapters written by 60 authors. My personal favorites are #14, the hard to find "Raising Darwin's Consciousness" by Sarah Hrdy and #3, the previously unpublished "Doing Personality Research: How Can Feminist Theories Help?" by Abigail Stewart. The co-editors did a nice job of creating a valuable and informative collection that is also well organized with useful editors' commentaries.

Intelligent Psychological Perspectives Collected Here

The co-editors of this intelligent Reader are to be commended for their perceptive selections and editorial introductions and conclusion. Many carefully selected and arranged readings are included. Co-editor Blythe Clinchy is a co-author of the classic book "Women's Ways of Knowing" and co-editor Julie Norem has recently published a book about constructive pessimism, "The Positive Power of Negative Thinking." All of this is high quality psychology that suggests the field does have a future in the 21st century.

A comprehensive neo-Piagetian, post-Freudian tome

Gender is approached from a semiotic sensibilty decoding alluring cultural iconography.