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Title Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender / editor-in-chief, Judith Worell.

Publication Info. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, 2001.
Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (111 entries) : 25 images, digital files
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical referenceses.
Contents A-W.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields of study in the social and behavioral sciences. Along the way, it was discovered that while women very often think and behave differently than do men, industrialized societies cater to masculine perspectives. The "Psychology of Women" emerged as a field of study focusing on just those areas in which women most often butted against assumed roles. And similarly, in the 1990s, the "Psychology of Men" emerged to focus on the same issues for men. The Encyclopedia of Gender covers all three areas under one cover, discussing psychological differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, as well as biologically based differences and how those differences impact behavior. Coverage, from A (Abortion and Its Health Effects) to W (Working Environments), includes studies of these differences in applied settings such as education, business, the home, in politics, sports competition, etc.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Local Note Credo Reference.
Credo Reference General Reference
Subject Women -- Encyclopedias.
Women.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Subject Women -- Psychology -- Encyclopedias.
Women -- Psychology.
Women -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias.
Women -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- Encyclopedias.
Sex role.
Sex differences -- Encyclopedias.
Sex differences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Added Author Worell, Judith, 1928-
Credo Reference (Firm)
Added Title Women and gender.
Other Form: Print version: 0122272455 9780122272455 (DLC) 2001088812 2 v. (xvii, 1256 p.) : ill.
ISBN 9781849723107 online
0122272455 set
0122272463 v. 1
0122272471 v. 2