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Psychology of Gender

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2003

Topics

  • Identifying Core Questions
  • The Study of Difference
  • Conceptualizing the Impact of Biology and Evolution Cross-Cultural Paper Due
  • Summarizing the Case for Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities Class Presentations on Cross-Cultural Inquiry
  • Gender Socialization: Cultural Transmission and Cultural Constraints
  • Developmental Issues: Sex and Aggression Short Presentations on Readings
  • Parenting and Gendered Child Development Draft of Final Paper Due
  • Partnering: Marriage and Divorce Draft of Final Paper will be Returned
  • School Environments: How Schools are Short-Changing Girls…and Boys Final Paper Due
  • Economics and Political Forces
  • Summing Up

Readings

  • Clinchy, B. M., and J. K. Norem, eds. The Gender and Psychology Reader. NY: New York University Press, 1998.
    Required
  • Halpern, D. F. Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities. 3rd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000.
    Required
  • Maccoby, E. E. The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
    Required
  • Anderson, E. Code of the Street . NY: Norton, 1999.
    Recommended
  • Booth, A., and A. Crouter, eds. Men in Families. NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.
    Recommended
  • Brown, L. M. Raising their Voices: The Politics of Girls’ Anger. Cambridge: Harvard, 1998.
    Recommended
  • Colapinto, J. As Nature Made Him. NY: Harper Collins, 2000.
    Recommended
  • Etzokowitz, H., et. al. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
    Recommended
  • Folbre, N. The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. NY: New Press, 2001.
    Recommended
  • Hochschild, A. R. The Second Shift. NY: Avon, 1989.
    Recommended
  • Keller, E. F. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
    Recommended
  • ———. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. NY: W. H. Freeman, 1983.
    Recommended
  • LeVay, S. Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
    Recommended
  • Maddox, B. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA . NY: Harper Collins, 2002.
    Recommended
  • McGrayne, S. B. Nobel Prize Women in Science. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 1998.
    Recommended
  • Pollack, W. Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. NY: Random House, 1998.
    Recommended
  • ———. Real Boys’ Voices. NY: Random House, 2000.
    Recommended
  • Tolman, D. Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality. Cambridge: Harvard, 2002.
    Recommended
  • Wilson, W. J. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. NY: Knopf, 1996.
    Recommended
  • Brown, L. S. “New Voices, New Visions: Toward a Lesbian/Gay Paradigm for Psychology.” Chap. 9 in GPR. 1989, pp. 167-177.
    Listed reading
  • Eagley, A. H. “On Comparing Women and Men.” Chap. 8 in GPR. 1994, pp. 159-164.
    Listed reading
  • Fausto-Sterling, A. “The Five Sexes.” Chap. 11 in GPR. 1993, pp. 221-227.
    Listed reading
  • Halpern, D. “Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities” (Chap. 1), and “Searching for sex differences..” (Chap. 2). In Introduction and Overview. Pp. 1-34, 35-78.
    Listed reading
  • Hare-Mustin, R. T., and Maracek, J. “The Meaning of Difference.” Chap. 7 in GPR. 1988, pp.125-139.
    Listed reading
  • Rigor, S. “Epistemological Debates, Feminist Voices.” Chap. 2 in GPR. 1992, pp. 34-48.
    Listed reading
  • West, C., and Zimmerman, D. H. “Doing Gender.” Chap. 6 in GPR. 1987, pp. 104-121.
    Listed reading
  • Zucker, K. J. “Biological Influences on Psychosexual Differentiation.” Chap. 7 in The Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender. Edited by R. K. Unger. NY: Wiley, 2001, pp. 101-115.
    Listed reading
  • Buss, D. M. “Psychological Sex Differences: Origins Through Sexual Selection.” Chap. 12 in GPR. 1995, pp. 228-234.
    Listed reading
  • Hrdy, S. “Raising Darwin’s Consciousness: Females and Evolutionary Theory.” Chap. 14 in GPR. 1988, pp. 265-271.
    Listed reading
  • Martin, J. “Epistemological Essentialism, False Difference, and Other Dangerous Traps.” Chap. 1 in GPR. 1994, pp. 10-30.
    Listed reading
  • Eccles, J. S., et. al. “Gender Role Stereotypes, Expectancy Effects and Parents’ Socialization of Gender Differences.” Chap. 38 in GPR. 1990, pp. 721-735.
    Listed reading
  • Halpern, D. “Biological Hypotheses Part I: Genes and Hormones” (Chap. 4), and “Biological Hypotheses Part II: Brains, Evolutionary Pressures, and Brain-Behavior Relationship” (Chap.5). Pp. 131-182, 183-228.
    Listed reading
  • Brown, L. M. Raising Their Voices. .. 1998, pp. 1-126.
    Listed reading
  • Cowan, P. A., C. P. Cowan, and P. K. King. “Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters: Gender Differences in Family Functions and Parenting Style.” In Family, Self and Society. Edited by P. A. Cowan, et. al. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1993, pp. 165-196.
    Listed reading
  • Greenberg, Julie A. “Defining Male and Female: Intersexuality and the Collision between Law and Biology.” Arizona Law Review 4 (1999): 265-327.
    Listed reading
  • Pollack, W. S. Real Boys’ Voices. Part 1, pp. 1-170, 2000.
    Listed reading
  • Tolman, D. Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality . 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Maccoby, E. E. The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. 1998.
    Listed reading
  • Espada, J. “The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son.” In Zapata’s Disciple: Essays by Martin Espada . Boston: South End Press, 1998.
    Listed reading
  • Anderson, E. “The Mating Game.” Chap. 4 in Code of the Street. Pp. 142-178.
    Listed reading
  • Hochschild, A. The Second Shift. NY: Avon, 1989.
    Listed reading
  • Gottman, J. “Towards a Process Model of Men in Marriages and Families.” In Men in Families. Edited by A. Booth, and A. Crouter. NJ: Erlbaum, 1998, pp. 149-192.
    Listed reading
  • Sommers, C. H. “The War Against Boys.” The Atlantic Monthly. May 2000.
    Listed reading
  • Pollack, W. “Schools: The Blackboard Jungle.” In Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood. NH: Random House, 1998, pp. 230-271.
    Listed reading
  • Folbre, N. The Invisible Heart… 2001, pp. 11-83, 225-232.
    Listed reading
  • Sattel, J. W. “Men, Inexpressiveness and Power.” Chap. 26 in GPR. 1983, pp. 498-503.
    Listed reading
  • “A Study of Women Faculty in Science.” MIT Faculty Newsletter 11, 4 (March 1999).
    Listed reading
  • Wilson, W. J. “The Fading Inner City Family.” Chap. 4 in When Work Disappears. NY: Knopf, 1996, pp. 87-110.
    Listed reading
  • Boo, K. “After Welfare: Does Work Make You a Better Mother?” NewYorker (April 9, 2001): 92-107.
    Listed reading
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