Psychology of women : [electronic resource] selected readings / edited by Juanita H. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Myths, stereotypes, and the psychology of women -- The psychology of woman / G.T.W. Patrick -- Functionalism, Darwinism, and the psychology of women / Stephanie A. Shields -- 2. Psychoanalysis and the woman question -- Femininity / Sigmund Freud -- On Freud's view of female psychology / Margaret Mead -- The problem of feminine masochism / Karen Horney -- Once more the inner space / Erik Erikson -- 3. Biology and behavior -- Brain, body, and behavior / Ruth H. Bleier -- The premenstrual syndrome / Mary Brown Parlee -- The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause / Vieda Skultans -- 4. Sex differences -- The eye of the beholder : parents' views on sex of newborns / Jeffrey Z. Rubin, Frank J. Provenzano, Zella Luria -- Early sex differences in the human : studies of socioemotional development / Michael Lewis -- Psychology / Reesa M. Vaughter -- Androgyny reconsidered / Kathleen E. Grady -- 5. Growing up female -- How nursery schools teach girls to shut up / Lisa A. Serbin and K. Daniel O'Leary -- Implications and applications of recent research on feminine development / Grace K. Baruch and Rosalind C. Barnett -- Social values, femininity, and the development of female competence / Julia A. Sherman -- Growing up Black / Joyce A. Ladner -- 6. Sexuality -- Women's liberation and human sexual relations / Patricia Spencer Faunce and Susan Phipps-Yonas -- Social dimensions of the menstrual taboo and the effects on female sexuality / Etta Bender Breit and Marilyn Myerson Ferrandino -- The realities of lesbianism / Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- 7. Birth control -- Contraceptives for males / William J. Bremner and David M. de Kretser -- The psychosocial factors of the abortion experience : a critical review / Lisa Roseman Shusterman -- !Kung hunter-gatherers : feminism, diet, and birth control / Gina Bari Kobata -- Sex preferences, sex control, and the status of women / Nancy E. Williamson -- 8. Pregnancy, childbirth, and breast-feeding -- Childbirth in crosscultural perspective / Niles Newton -- Maternal atttachment : importance of the first post-partum days / Marshall H. Klaus ... [et al.] -- 9. Lifestyles : tradition and change -- Anger and tenderness / Adrienne Rich -- Big-time careers for the little woman : a dual-role dilemma / Susan A. Darley -- The role of models in women's professional development / Elizabeth Douvan -- The male sex role : definitions, problems, and sources of change / Joseph H. Pleck -- 10. Psyche and society : variations from the norm -- The nature of female criminality / Dale Harrentsian -- Sex differences and psychiatric disorders / Bruce P. Dohrenwend and Barbara Snell Dohrenwend -- Cinderella's stepsisters : a feminist perspective on anorexia nervosa and bulimia / Marlene Boskind-Lodahl -- The consciousness-raising group as a model for therapy with women / Annette M. Brodsky -- Middle age and aging -- The double standard of aging / Susan Sontag -- Women in the middle years : conceptions and misconceptions / Rosalind Barnett and Grace Baruch -- A cross-cultural investigation of behavioral changes at menopause / Joyce Griffen -- Women in widowhood / Carol J. Barrett.