A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity

by Hilary M. Lips and Virginia Cyrus

Book Overview

To avoid using middle-class Americans as the metric, Lips (psychology, Radford U., Virginia) employs a global multicultural, approach in examining how gender-related expectations interact with other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577666879
• ISBN13: 9781577666875
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A well written introduction to female psychology diversity.

A New Psychology Of Women: Gender, Culture, And Ethnicity is the first in-depth introduction to the psychological diversity of women from a cross-cultural perspective. Using a narrative approach, Hilary Lips describes ways in which cultures (including contemporary American culture) shape women's experience. In addition to the essential topics in a psychology of women survey, A New Psychology Of Women includes a strong focus on the diversity and the commonality of women's experiences; research carried conducted by scholars outside the U.S. and outside the mainstream within the U.S.; as well as chapters examining aging, leadership, and power. Each chapter opening presents a narrative bringing the chapter topic into personal and cultural perspective. A New Psychology Of Women is an ideal, and particularly well written, introduction that will prove of immense interest to students of psychology and women's studies.