APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women

This handbook demonstrates the extensive scholarship on womens experience and feminist theories as it applies to research, training, and practice. Its publication marks a significant shift in the field of psychology over the last 50 years, as researchers and clinicians have developed a new schema for understanding the psychology of women, and ultimately for all human beings. Choice This handbook demonstrates the extensive scholarship on women's experience and feminist theories as it applies to research, training, and practice. Its publication marks a significant shift in the field of psychology over the last 50 years, as researchers and clinicians have developed a new schema for understanding the psychology of women, and ultimately for all human beings. * Choice *

Cheryl B. Travis, PhD, is emerita professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she also chaired the Women's Studies Program from 2001 to 2014. Her research in the area of women's health has focused on patterns in medical decision making, access to and quality of health care, and race and gender disparities in cardiovascular care. She is the author of two volumes on women's health, and with Jacquelyn W. White is coeditor of a volume titled Sexuality, Society, and Feminism. In addition, she edited a feminist analysis titled Evolution, Gender, and Rape. She is the founding editor (19922003) of the Psychology of Women Book Series, published by APA, and was associate editor of the American Psychologist (19932006). She has held several positions within the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35), including editor of the newsletter (19801982) and president (1995). She has chaired both the APA Board of Convention Affairs and the APA Board of Scientific Affairs. She was a two-term member of the APA Finance Committee, a member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs, chair of the APA Women's Caucus of Council, and a member of the APA Committee on Women in Psychology (20142016). She received the Committee on Women in Psychology's Distinguished Leadership Award (1999), Society for the Psychology of Women Carolyn Wood Sherif Award (2005), and the first Sue Rosenberg Zalk Award for Service (2002). She is an APA fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9), the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35), the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology (APA Division 34), and the Society for Health Psychology (APA Division 38). Jacquelyn W. White, PhD, is emerita professor of psychology and former director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she also served as associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has conducted research on gender issues, sexual victimization, and intimate partner violence for more than 35 years, and led one of the first longitudinal studies of sexual and physical dating violence among adolescents and college students. She also led the Office of Violence Against Women's research and evaluation strategic planning project. She recently served as a participant in the Technology and Women: Protection and Peril symposium sponsored by the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence at the University of Pennsylvania. She is cofounder and past president of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence, as well as one of the co-organizers of ARC3 (Administrator-Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative), a national group working to ensure that campus climate surveys of sexual misconduct are rooted in empirically based research. In addition to being a former American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow, she is a past editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly, past president of the Southeastern Psychological Association, and past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women. She was coeditor of the two-volume series on Violence Against Women and Children, as well as coeditor (with Cheryl Travis) of Sexuality, Society, and Feminism: Psychological Perspectives on Women, both published by APA. She is recipient of the Society for the Psychology of Women's 2008 Carolyn Wood Sherif Award and the 2011 Sue Rosenberg Zalk Award for Service. In 2010, she received the APA Committee of Women in Psychology's Leadership Award. She is an APA fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9) and the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35).

Volume 1: History, Theory, and Battlegrounds Editorial Board About the Editors-in-Chief Contributors A Note From the Publisher Introduction Part I: Making History: Landmarks of a Movement Chapter 1: Reimagining the History of the Psychology of Women Elizabeth Johnston and Ann Johnson Chapter 2: Modern Misogyny and Backlash Kristin J. Anderson Chapter 3: Moving From Sisterhood to Girl Power Emilie Zaslow Part II: Finding Meaning Through a Feminist Lens Chapter 4: Feminist Critiques of Psychology Joan C. Chrisler and Maureen C. McHugh Chapter 5: Making a Difference: Feminist Scholarship Alice H. Eagly Chapter 6: Qualitative Inquiry in Feminist Psychology Jeanne Marecek and Eva Magnusson Part III: Seeing Beyond Difference to Commonalities Chapter 7: Gender Similarities Janet Shibley Hyde Chapter 8: Biological Essentialism, Gender, True Belief, Confirmation Biases, and Skepticism Patricia Adair Gowaty Chapter 9: The Sex/Gender Distinction: Beyond F and M Diana Schellenberg and Anelis Kaiser Chapter 10: The Gendering of Emotion and the Psychology of Women Stephanie A. Shields, Heather J. MacArthur, and Kaitlin T. McCormick Part IV: Sexuality and Gender: Research, Performativity, Power, and Pleasure Chapter 11: Performing the Self: Performativity and Discursive Psychology Julia C. Nentwich and Tracy Morison Chapter 12: Sexuality, Pleasure, Power, and Danger: Points of Tension, Contradiction, and Conflict Breanne Fahs, Eric Swank, and Sara I. McClelland Chapter 13: Objectification Theory: Continuing Contributions to Feminist Psychology Tomi-Ann Roberts, Rachel M. Calogero, and Sarah J. Gervais Chapter 14: Teen and Young Adult Sexual Desire and the Importance of "Yes" Zo D. Peterson Chapter 15: Women's Sexuality: Victims, Objects, or Agents? Camille J. Interligi and Maureen C. McHugh Part V: Crediting the Context of Sexism, Class, and Status Chapter 16: Warmth and Competence: A Feminist Look at Power and Negotiation Rachel A. Connor and Susan T. Fiske Chapter 17: Gender Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Shifting Standards Monica Biernat Chapter 18: Benevolent Sexism and the Status of Women Peter Glick and Liana Raberg Chapter 19: From Modern Sexism to Gender Microaggressions: Understanding Contemporary Forms of Sexism and Their Influence on Diverse Women Jioni A. Lewis Chapter 20: Socioeconomic Status, Social Class, Subjective Social Status, and Subjective Well-Being: Examples of Women's Appraisals of Their Health and Work Karen Fraser Wyche and Shari E. Miles-Cohen Chapter 21: Feminism, Psychology, and the Gender Pay Gap Hilary M. Lips Part VI: Growing Up: Feminist Critiques of Development Chapter 22: Growing Up Gendered: Feminist Perspectives on Development Rachael D. Robnett, Elizabeth A. Daniels, and Campbell Leaper Chapter 23: The Sexualization of Girls Eileen L. Zurbriggen Chapter 24: Development of a Gendered Narrative Identity Robyn Fivush and Kelly Marin Chapter 25: Midlife Transitions Claire Etaugh Chapter 26: Redefining Gendered Old Age: A Feminist and Power Perspective Varda Muhlbauer, Eleanor Pardess, and Nava Haruvy Part VII: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Intersectionality Chapter 27: Intersectionality Theory in the Psychology of Women Leah R. Warner, Isis H. Settles, and Stephanie A. Shields Chapter 28: History, Aspirations, and Transformations of Intersectionality: Focusing on Gender Vickie M. Mays and Negin Ghavami Chapter 29: Intersectionality Applied: Intersectionality Is as Intersectionality Does Cirleen DeBlaere, Laurel B. Watson, and Kimberly J. Langrehr Chapter 30: Intersectionality and Feminist Psychology: Power, Knowledge, and Process Patrick R. Grzanka Index Volume 2: Perspectives on Women's Private and Public Lives Editorial Board Contributors Part I: Locating Psychological Well-Being in Context Chapter 1: Feminist Therapy and Empowerment Carolyn Zerbe Enns Chapter 2: Feminist Critique of and Integration With Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tr