In Our Own Words: Writings from Women's Lives - Softcover

Mary Crawford; Rhoda Kesler Unger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577664906 ISBN 13: 9781577664901

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2006

Synopsis

In Our Own Words is a collection of 42 real-life narratives from women, drawing on the richness and diversity of women's own voices as they tell about their lives. Representing many divergent viewpoints and experiences, and with an emphasis on ethnic, cultural, and age diversity, this well-balanced collection encourages discussion and debate, promoting critical thinking about women and gender by depicting the variety of women's experience.

Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Chrisler-Golden, Lectures on the Psychology of Women, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781478635840) and Lips, A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478631880).

About this title

About the Author

Mary Crawford is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Women s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. She has taught the psychology of women and gender for twenty-five years, most of that time at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where she earned the Trustee s Achievement Award for lifetime professional accomplishment. She has also held the Jane W. Irwin Chair in Women s Studies at Hamilton College, served as Distinguished Visiting Teacher/Scholar at Trenton State College at The College of New Jersey, and directed the graduate program in women s studies at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Delaware. Professor Crawford is a consulting editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly, an associate editor of Feminism and Psychology, and a Fellow of both the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Mary Crawford has spoken and written about women s studies issues for audiences as diverse as the British Psychological Society, Ms. Magazine, and the Oprah Winfrey show. Works she has authored or edited include: Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives (1989); Talking Difference: On Gender and Language (1995); Gender Differences and Human Cognition (1997); Coming Into Her Own: Education Successes in Girls and Women (1999) and a special double issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly (1999) on innovative methods for feminist research.

Rhoda Unger is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Montclair State University in New Jersey and Resident Scholar in Women s Studies at Brandeis University. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University. Professor Unger was the first recipient of the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from the Division on the Psychology of Women of the American Psychological Association. She is also the recipient of two distinguished publication awards and a recent distinguished career award from the Association for Women in Psychology. She has been the president of the Division of the Psychology of Women and, more recently, president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad as a Fulbright scholar in Israel, a distinguished lecturer at the University of British Columbia, and as a visiting fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is currently the book review editor of the international journal Feminism and Psychology. Professor Unger is the author or editor of seven previous books, including Resisting Gender: Twenty-five Years of Feminist Psychology; Representations: Social Constructions of Gender; Women, Gender, and Social Psychology; and Female and Male. She is currently the first editor of ASAP (Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy), an electronic journal sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

From the Back Cover

"All of the readings in this book are accessible and well written. The writing is clear and there is enough variation in individual style to make the book interesting. . . . Overall, this is an excellent text. It is conversational and `easy' to read and yet raises important issues." -- Susan Hippensteele, University of Hawaii at Manoa

"One of the book's main strengths is the first-person narrative format. I also found the introduction to each part very useful. Not only did the introduction explain the purpose of the section, but the authors provided thought-provoking questions as well." -- Melissa Zarin, Montclair State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1577664906
• ISBN 13: 9781577664901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 324