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.

This is a comprehensive introduction to sex and gender theories, research, and issues, focusing on social psychological and feminist perspectives. The book examines the similarities and differences between women and men, where that knowledge comes from, and how that knowledge may itself be shaped and limited by cultural perceptions. The text is organized into three primary themes: Part I provides background to stereotypes, theories, and research; Part II is focused on biological and psychological dimensions; Part III examines sex and gender in social relationships.

Product Description: This text begins with the premise that everything we think we know about human beings is shaped and limited by our own culture and experience. Its aim is to show students how gender-related expectations interact with other cultural assumptions and stereotypes, as well as with social and economic conditions, to affect women’s experiences and behavior...read more

Product Description: This book explores the issues of how relationships between women and men are shaped by differences in personal, collective, and institutional power. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A social psychologist discusses, from a feminist perspective, the role of power in male-female relationships