Title:	The Psychology of Gender
Authors:	H. Eagly, Alice E. Beall, Anne ROBERT J. STERNBERG
Keywords:	Sex differences (Psychology)—Textbooks
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	Guilford Press
Description:	In this edition, as in the earlier one, we faced the problem of our inability to include all topics that fall under the rubric of the psychology of gender. Therefore, we decided to produce a book whose main focus is on sex differences and similarities in cognition, personality, and behavioral tendencies. This question of difference and similarity has been the core gender issue for psychologists in psychology departments for many decades and is crucial for answering the question of why women and men so often lead different lives. If men and women were the same except for genitalia and some details of secondary sex characteristics, women would not end up being positioned differently in society, generally with less access to resources than men. By focusing on similarity and difference, we are leaving out other, very important research areas within which psychologists have studied the particulars of the lives and experiences of women and men—for example, research on sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and mental health. Thus, we realize that this book does not (and, practically speaking, could not) cover all that is important to understanding gender, although we have adopted the inclusive title, The Psychology of Gender
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52405
ISBN:	1-57230-983-0
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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