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Psychology of Women: A Study of Bio-Cultural Conflicts
by Judith M. Bardwick. 248 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 Psychoanalytic Theory

Chapter 2 the Effect of Body States on the Psyche

Chapter 3 Psychology and the Sexual Body

Chapter 4 Psychosomatic Dysfunctions of the Female Reproductive System

Chapter 5 Differences Between Male and Female Brains

Chapter 6 Sex Differences in Personality and Learning Ability

Chapter 7 Dependence, Passivity, and Aggression

Chapters 8 Identification

Chapter 9 the Ego and Self-Esteem

Chapter10 the Motive to Achieve

Chapter 11 Changes in Motives and Roles During Different Stages in Life

Chapter 12 a Summing Up and Some Concluding Remarks

REFERENCES

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Readings on the Psychology of Women
by Judith M. Bardwick. 336 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: The Development of Sex Differences

1: Sexual dimorphism and homosexual gender identity

2: Sex differences in the incidence of neonatal abnormalities and abnormal performance in early childhood

3: Attachment Differences in Male and Female Infant Monkeys

4: Sex, Age, and State as Determinants of Mother-Infant Interaction

5: Play Behavior in the Year-Old Infant: Early Sex Differences

6: Sex Differences in Intellectual Functioning

7: Sex differences in adolescent character processes

Part II: Socialization, Cultural Values, and the Development of Motives

8: Ambivalence: the Socialization of Women

9: Cultural contradictions and sex roles

10: The motive to avoid success and changing aspirations of college women

11: Race, Social Class, and the Motive to Avoid Success in Women

12: Barriers to the Career Choice of Engineering, Medicine, or Science Among American Women

13: The Woman Ph.D.: a Recent Profile

14: Women Mathematicians and the Creative Persormlity

15: The Study of Sex Roles

16: Career and family orientations of husbands and wives in relation to marital happiness

Part III: The Traditional Role: Gratifications, Frustrations, and Stresses

17: Some implications of current changes in sex role patterns

18: The Roots of Ambivalence in American Women

19: Marriage and the Family

20: Motherhood

21: Depression in Middle-Aged Women

22: The First Year of Bereavement a Longitudinal Study of the Reaction of London Widows to the Death of Their Husbands

23: The six stations of divorce

Part IV: The Women's Liberation Movement

24: Differences in attitudinal responses under conditions of implicitly manipulated group salience

25: Consciousness

26: Black Women 1970

27: The Middle-Class Mind of Kate Millett

28: The rise of women's liberation

Part V: Intercultural Comparisons

29: Pre-industrial patterns in the colonial family in America: a content analysis of colonial magazines

30: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Some Sex Differences in Socialization

31: Sex Differentiation in Role Expectations and Performance

32: Worker, Mother, Housewife: Soviet Woman Today

33: A re-evaluation of the primary role of the communist Chinese woman: the homemaker or the worker

34: Women in the kibbutz: changing status and concepts

Part VI: Women in Relationship to Their Bodies

35: The psychobiology of pregnancy

36: Castration Anxiety and Phallus Envy: a Reformulation

37: Behavior therapy approaches to modification of sexual preferences: biological perspective and critique

38: A Predictive Study of Psychological and Psychosomatic Responses to Oral Contraceptives

39: Some Aspects of Lower Class Sexual Behavior

40: The Role of Emotional Factors in Obstetric Complications: a Review

41: Psychologic aspects of lactation

42: Postpartum psychiatric syndromes

43: Psychological investigation of habitual abortion

Part VII: Women and Criteria of Mental Health

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45: Hysterical character and feminine identity

46: Women's Lib--rational? or socially pathological?

47: Sex-Role Stereotypes and Clinical Judgments of Mental Health

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Setting Psychological Boundaries: A Handbook for Women
by Anne Cope Wallace. 212 pgs.

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Based on a solid framework of theory and research, this book illustrates definitive ways in which we learn to recognize psychological boundaries -- our unique inner territory -- and to defend our rights in every relationship. Following the paths of ten remarkable women, from the narrative of a resourceful inner-city child to the survival of a Holocaust victim, this luminous book, filled with compelling voices, will touch the reader in unexpected ways.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Living Inside

2 Pastures of Clover

3 Mermaid's Song

4 Treasure Hunt

5 A Burning Barrow

6 Carousel

7 The Dark Angel

8 Bur and Honey

9 Into My Woman Skin

10 Conclusion

Bibliography

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Women and Health Psychology: Mental Health Issues
by Cheryl Brown Travis. 282 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: The Psychology Of Gender: Mental Health Implications

Summary and Conclusions

2: Gender and Mental Health Status

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3: Introduction To Psychotropic Drugs

Summary

4: Psychotropic Drugs: Treatment Issues

Summary and Comment

5: Epidemiology Of Alcoholism

Summary

6: Etiology And Treatment Of Alcoholism Among Women

Summary

7: Overview Of Eating Disorders

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8: Eating Disorders: Etiology And Treatment

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9: Issues In Therapy

Summary

10: Feminist Alternatives

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References

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Subject Index
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What Does a Woman Want?
by Serge Ande, Susan Fairfield. 350 pgs.

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The Lacanian Clinical Field

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The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview

Foreword: Retroactive Determination: Discovering Late Lacan in Early Freud

Preface

1: What Can I Know about It?

2: The Paranoid Science of the Sexual Relation

3: Encountering the Unnamable

4: The First Lie

5: The Hysteric and Femininity: Disgust

6: The Hysteric and Femininity: Conversion

7: The Case of Elisabeth

8: Dream and Desire in Hysteria

9: A Change of Sex?

10: A Daughter and Her Mother

11: Becoming a Woman

12: Jouissances

13: Otherness of the Body

14: Love and the Woman

15: From the Masquerade to Poetry

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Charting a New Course for Feminist Psychology
by Lynn H. Collins, Michelle R. Dunlap, Joan C. Chrisler. 379 pgs.

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Feminist psychology is vigorous, creative, and increasingly activist. This volume reflects women's diversity and incorporates strategies for social action and opportunities for political activism. It anticipates trends and developments in the psychology of women and feminist psychology. Chapters include those about women and self-esteem, leadership skills, welfare reform, spirituality, and domestic violence. The emphasis on social activism is unique. Unusual and cutting-edge research methodologies and techniques are also discussed.

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Introduction

Part I: Feminist Theory and Pedagogy

Chapter 1: Gendered Subjects in Psychology: Satirical and Dialectic Perspectives

Chapter 2: Deconstructing Difference: Conceptualizing Feminist Research from Within the Postmodern

Chapter 3: The Faces of Feminist Pedagogy: a Survey of Psychologists and Their Students

Chapter 4: Women of Color and Feminist Psychology: Moving from Criticism and Critique to Integration and Application

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Part II: Psychological Development

Chapter 5: Deconstructing Attachment Theory: Naturalizing the Politics of Motherhood

Chapter 6: Dimensions of Silencing and Resistance in Adolescent Girls: Development of a Narrative Method for Research and Prevention

Chapter 7: Self-Esteem Inoculation: Protecting Girls from the Effects of Sexism

Chapter 8: Women, Whither Goest Thou? to Chart New Courses in Religiousness and Spirituality and to Define Ourselves!

Part III: Women’s Health

Chapter 9: Hiv Among Elderly Women: Ignored and Overlooked by Health Care Providers and Public Policy Makers

Chapter 10: Black Battered Women: New Directions for Research and Black Feminist Theory

References

Chapter 11: Hormone Hostages: the Cultural Legacy of Pms as a Legal Defense

References

Part IV: Women’s Mental Health and Feminist Therapy

Chapter 12: Prevention of Eating Disorders: Problems, Pitfalls, and Feminist Possibilities

Chapter 13: Body Image Disturbance and Disordered Eating in African-American and Latina Women

Chapter 14: Stories of Violence: Use of Testimony in a Support Group for Latin American Battered Women

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Part V: Feminist Activism in the Public Interest

Chapter 15: We All Need Different Kinds of Help: Poor Women's Perspectives on Welfare Reform

Chapter 16: Women, Federal Policy, and Social Change: Bringing a Feminist Presence to Capitol Hill

References

Index

About the Contributors
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Woman's Relationship with Herself: Gender, Foucault and Therapy
by Helen O'Grady. 149 pgs.

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This text explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how it is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: A Lens for Viewing Self-Policing

2: Gender and Self-Policing

3: Challenging Negative Identity Practices-Narrative Therapy

4: Immanent Critiques: Expanded Possibilities for Refusing Self-Policing

5: An Ethics of Care for the Self

6: Foucault and Therapy-A Contradiction?

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

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Women's Ethnicities: Journeys through Psychology
by Karen Fraser Wyche, Faye J. Crosby. 208 pgs.

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Foreword: Transgressions in Psychology--Daring to Look at Ethnicity and Gender

About the Editors and Contributors

1: Introduction: Coming Together

References

PART ONE: Education Is Political

2: Staying Within the Academy

3: Teaching Is a Political Act: Contextualizing Gender and Ethnic Voices

4: Walking the Talk: On Stage and Behind the Scenes

PART 2: Women's Work: Mothering and Modeling

References

5: Overcoming Stereotypes of Mothers in the African American Context

6: Minority Mothers: Stress and Coping When Your Child Is in Special Education

7: Emotional Well-Being and Parenting Behavior Among Low-Income Single Mothers: Social Support and Ethnicity as Contexts of Adjustment

PART 3: Gender, Culture, and Values

8: Living with Anomalies: Sojourns of a White American Jew

9: The Moral Self, Values, and Circles of Belonging

10: Intraethnic and Interethnic Diversity: Researching the Japanese American and Mexican American Communities

11: Rethinking Psychological Theory to Encompass Issues of Gender and Ethnicity: Focus on Achievement

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Women and Sex Roles: A Social Psychological Perspective
by Irene H. Frieze, Paula B. Johnson, Jacquelynne E. Parsons, Diane N. Ruble, Gail L. Zellman. 444 pgs.

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Women and Sex Roles: A Social Psychological Perspective

Acknowledgments

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Preface

1: The Psychology of Women and Sex Roles

Part I: Psychology and Women

2: Doing Psychological Research

3: Theories of Feminine Personality

4: Sex Differences in Personality and Abilities

Part II: The Origins of Sex Differences

5: Is Anatomy Destiny? Biology and Sex Differences

6: Classic Theories of Sex-Role Socialization

7: Cognitive-Developmental Theories of Sex-Role Socialization

Part III: The Roles of Women

8: Changes in Women's Role Participation

9: Women's Adult Development

10: Biosocial Aspects of Reproduction

11: Sexual Roles of Women

12: Achievement and Nonachievement in Women

13: Psychological Disorders in Women: Indices of Role Strain

Part IV: Women and Power

14: Prejudice and Discrimination

15: Women and Interpersonal Power

16: Being Feminine or Masculine—nonverbally

17: Politics and Power

Part V: Women's Lives Today

18: Making Life Decisions

References

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Subject Index
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The Art of Midlife: Courage and Creative Living for Women (Chap. 5 "'She Must Braid Us All Together': The Psychology of Women")
by Linda N. Edelstein. 215 pgs.

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The Art of Midlife illuminates the journey for women who want to create intentional, spirited lives. The book is based on Dr. Edelstein's extensive clinical practice and on interviews with "ordinary," healthy, and active women between the ages of 38-60 years old. She begins with descriptions of the dynamics of midlife, the unique opportunities to reevaluate life, and the need to mourn one's losses. The book continues with real voices, including her own, that recount the reconnection to one's self that is essential. The author faces the difficult issues of staying connected to others while reclaiming one's life and the problems that may occur. The final section of the book recounts the actions and success of women who sought a more authentic second half of life.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Relinquish the Old

1: Freedom is Daily, Prose- Bound, Routine Remembering" An Overview of Midlife Creativity

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2: "The Terrible Weight Of All This Unused Life" Relinquish the Old

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3: "Glowing Coals Under Grey Ashes" Midlife

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4: "First It Was in Black And White, and Then It Was in Color" Creativity and Insight

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Part II: Reconnect to the Self

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5: "She Must Braid Us All Together" The Psychology of Women

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6: I Am Her Only Novel" Relationships with Parents And Their Dreams for Us

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7: There's Still So Much I'D like to See" How We Are Formed by Social Forces

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8: "Once You Are Real You Can't Be Ugly" Authenticity

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9: "Finding a Fortune in The Lining of an Old Coat" Aggression and Creativity

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10: "The Long Meandering Fingers Of Ice Will Thicken" Problems in Creative Living

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Part III: Refocus the Future

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11: "Life Shrinks or Expands In Proportion to One's Courage" Finding Courage

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12: "Don't Dream It, Be It" Turning Points

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13: "I Have a Brain and a Uterus And I Use Both" Women and Work

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14: "Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do" Achievements and Dreams

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Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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Women's Group Therapy: Creative Challenges and Options
by Vera Sonja Maass. 300 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Background

2: Life as Usual

3: Challenges

4: Sex-Role Identity and Motivational Forces

5: Explorations and Discoveries

6: Development of Personal Significance

7: Options, Goals, and Decisions

8: Recovering the Forgotten Self

9: Understanding the Structure of Gender

10: Designing and Constructing a Life

11: Changed Attitudes toward Self and Other Women

12: Was It Worth the Price?

References

Name Index

Subject Index
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Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder
by Dana Becker. 200 pgs.

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"In an innovative contribution to a crucial debate, Dana Becker turns a compassionate eye toward those women oft maligned in traditional theory & clinical practice. Her cogent analysis ... recasts responses to the limits placed upon girls & women in a culture of gender inequality." Rachel T. Hare-Mustin Author of Making a Difference "With precision & deliberation, leaving no stone unturned, Dana Becker lays out the history of BPD & the sordid history of the psychiatric profession's diagnosing of women." Sharon Lamb Author of The Trouble with Blame

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Prologue: Borderline Women Among the Mentally Ill

Conclusion

1: From Witchcraft to Hysteria to BPD: A Brief History of Female Insanity

2: Taxonomy as Destiny? The Birth of Labels

3: The Rise and Fall of the Borderline Concept

4: Toward an Etiology of Borderline Symptomatology

5: Through the Looking Glass: Female Socialization and Personality Disorder

6: Anger, Dependency, and Fear: Women at the Border

7: Borderline Self-Destructiveness and Therapeutic Breakdown

Epilogue

Notes

References

About the Book and Author

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Women and Madness
by Phyllis Chesler. 404 pgs.

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Acknowledgements Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Introduction Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Demeter Revisited--An Introduction

Madness

Chapter One: Why Madness?

Chapter Two: Asylums

Chapter Three: The Clinicians

Chapter Four: The Female Career as a Psychiatric Patient

Women

Chapter Five: Sex Between Patient and Therapist

Chapter Six: Psychiatrically Institutionalized Women

Chapter Seven: Lesbians

Chapter Nine: Feminists

Chapter Ten: Female Psychology: Past, Present, and Future

Appendix: The Female Career as a Psychiatric Patient

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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I Just Lost Myself: Psychological Abuse of Women in Marriage
by Valerie Nash Chang. 170 pgs.

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Psychological abuse can be as damaging to the psyche as physical abuse can be to the body, yet little is written about this common problem. This book confronts the issue of psychological abuse of women in marriage. Psychological abuse consists of an on-going pattern of domination, oppression, unrealistic expectations, verbal attacking or silent withdrawal within a relationship typically devoid of emotional connection. The author addresses the questions of how and why these women are abused, how the abuse starts and progresses, and in what ways does the process differ from that of physical abuse? Using quotes from survivors of these relationships, Dr. Chang describes life inside one of these relationships and gives treatment recommendations.

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Acknowledgments

A Comment on Language

Introduction

1: The Abuse of Women in Families

2: Life Before Marriage

3: Control and Domination

4: Because We Are Women

5: Patterns of Abuse

6: Becoming His Wife

7: Turning Points

8: Physical and Emotional Reactions

9: Coming Out

10: Treatment Recommendations

References

Index

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