The Psychology of Women
By Margaret W. Matlin
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This highly respected text offers students an enjoyable, extraordinarily well-written introduction to the psychology of women with an up-to-date examination of the field and comprehensive coverage of topics. Appropriate for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, Margaret Matlin's THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN, 7th Edition, accurately depicts women's experiences through direct quotations and an emphasis on empirical research. Known for its balance of scholarship, readability, and inclusion of various kinds of women, the text reflects a genuine interest in and understanding of the readers for whom it was written. This edition is updated to incorporate the most current research, and continues to examine numerous topics that are central to many women's lives but omitted from competing textbooks, including complete chapters on childhood, adolescence, love relationships, motherhood, health psychology, and psychological disorders. Matlin also provides enhanced coverage of such important topics as social class, ethnic diversity, pregnancy, and women's retirement as she continues to lead the way for the psychology of women course.
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This highly respected text offers students an enjoyable, extraordinarily well-written introduction to the psychology of women with an up-to-date examination of the field and comprehensive coverage of topics. Appropriate for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, Margaret Matlin's THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN, 7th Edition, accurately depicts women's experiences through direct quotations and an emphasis on empirical research. Known for its balance of scholarship, readability, and inclusion of various kinds of women, the text reflects a genuine interest in and understanding of the readers for whom it was written. This edition is updated to incorporate the most current research, and continues to examine numerous topics that are central to many women's lives but omitted from competing textbooks, including complete chapters on childhood, adolescence, love relationships, motherhood, health psychology, and psychological disorders. Matlin also provides enhanced coverage of such important topics as social class, ethnic diversity, pregnancy, and women's retirement as she continues to lead the way for the psychology of women course.
Four themes are traced throughout the book: 1) psychological gender differences are typically small and inconsistent; 2) people react differently to men and women; 3) women are less visible than men in many important areas; and 4) women vary widely from one another.
Proven, consistent pedagogical features include outlines that provide students with an overall structure at the beginning of each chapter, and true-false statements near the beginning of each chapter that encourage student interest and foreshadow key issues to be discussed. Key terms, in boldface type, are defined when introduced and listed at the end of the chapter to facilitate review. End-of-chapter review questions encourage students to clarify and synthesize concepts, and recommended readings suggest extra resources for students who want to explore chapter topics in greater detail.
Known for being remarkably up to date, with most citations from sources published in 1998 and later, the book enables students to examine course topics using the most current perspectives.
The text's organization combines a lifespan approach and a topical approach with a writing style that is clear and interesting, engaging readers with many examples and quotations in which women describe their own experiences.
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