APA handbook of the psychology of women: History, theory, and battlegrounds, Vol. 1
ISBN: 9781433827921
Platform/Publisher: PsycBOOKS / American Psychological Association
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapter; Download: Chapter
Subjects: Sex Roles & Women''s Issues;

As a formal field of study, the psychology of women has pushed the boundaries of traditional theory, produced breakthroughs in methodology, and built links to some of the most challenging problems of our time. It remains an intellectually vibrant and socially relevant area, including initiatives that not only have changed the epistemology of knowledge but also have expanded our understanding of ourselves and of the world.

Across this two-volume set, chapter authors provide scholarly reviews and in-depth analyses of subjects within their areas of expertise. Themes of status and power inform many chapters.

Volume 1 begins by outlining the emergence of the psychology of women and its connections with the women's movement. This is followed by feminist critiques of theory, descriptions of innovative methodologies, and discussions of difference and similarity, both between women and men and between gender and sexuality. The social and economic contexts surrounding these issues are reviewed, as are dichotomies sustained by sexism, stereotypes, and prejudice. Volume 1 concludes with chapters that address the uniquely intersecting components of individual experience.

Volume 2 focuses on applied subjects. It begins with a section on psychological well-being, including therapeutic models of gender, feminist goals of empowerment, multicultural feminism, and the borderlands of gender identity. Following is a discussion of close relationships, including issues of intimacy, equity, and changing models of family. Victimization and narratives of victimhood are described next, as are leadership, community, politics, and women in the workplace. The volume concludes with a discussion of women's roles and agency throughout the world, with special attention given to human rights and reproductive justice.

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 (1992-2003) of the Psychology of Women Book Series, published by APA, and was associate editor of the American Psychologist (1993-2006). She has held several positions within the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35), including editor of the newsletter (1980-1982) 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 (2014-2016). 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).

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