Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives: Psychological Perspectives

Description

In this volume, gender serves as a general framework for analyzing the ways people think about mathematical performance, language, self-concept, social categories, and methods and ways of knowing and creating knowledge. A distinguished group of authors shows how various forces in language, family practices, and education reinforce differentiation among the sex roles. This volume attempts to bridge this gap between difference and equality by revitalizing and reinterpreting the concept of gender differences. Gender and Thought places research on women and gender at the heart of many important areas of scholarly inquiry. Contents Introduction Sex, Gender, and Epistemology Bringing Young Women to Math and Science Molehill or Mountain? What We Know and Don't Know About Sex Bias in Language The Denial of Personal Disadvantage Among You, Me, and All the Other Ostriches Gender and Thought: The Role ofthe Self-Concept Agreeing to Differ: Feminist Epistemologies and Women's Ways of Knowing Feminist Transformations of/Despite Psychology Illness and Imagery: Feminist Cognition, Socialization, and Gender Identity Index