Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Thought: Paradox and Potential

   • Margaret Gentry

   Pages 1-16

3. Sex, Gender, and Epistemology

   • Rhoda K. Unger

   Pages 17-35

4. Bringing Young Women to Math and Science

   • Jacquelynne S. Eccles

   Pages 36-58

5. Molehill or Mountain? What We Know and Don’t Know About Sex Bias in Language

   • Nancy M. Henley

   Pages 59-78

6. The Denial of Personal Disadvantage Among You, Me, and All the Other Ostriches

   • Faye J. Crosby, Ann Pufall, Rebecca Claire Snyder, Marion O’Connell, Peg Whalen

   Pages 79-99

7. Gender and Thought: The Role of the Self-Concept

   • Hazel Markus, Daphna Oyserman

   Pages 100-127

8. Agreeing to Differ: Feminist Epistemologies and Women’s Ways of Knowing

   • Mary Crawford

   Pages 128-145

9. Feminist Transformations of/Despite Psychology

   • Michelle Fine, Susan Merle Gordon

   Pages 146-174

10. Illness and Imagery: Feminist Cognition, Socialization, and Gender Identity

    • Nancy Datan

    Pages 175-187

11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-201

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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.

• Gender
• Sex
• Transformation
• cognition
• education
• identity
• knowledge
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, West Chester University, West Chester, USA

  Mary Crawford

• Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA

  Margaret Gentry

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