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"This volume is . . . devoted to the question of how 'gender' is and (especially) should be, conceptualized in personality theory and research. It was designed for students and researchers. The idea . . . grew out of our conviction that 'gender' has played a curious and paradoxical role in personality theory and research to date."—from the Introduction
List of contents
Conceptualizing gender in personality theory and research / Abigail J. Stewart and M. Brinton Lykes 2
Gender differences in emotional development: A review of theories and research / Leslie R. Brody 14
Depression vs. paranoia: Why are there sex differences in mental illness? / Helen Block Lewis 62
Gender and victimization by intimates / Lenore E. Auerback Walker and Angela Browne 91
The measurement of masculinity and femininity: Engendering categorical realities / J. G. Morawski 108
Individuation and attachment in personality development: Extending Erickson's theory / Carol E. Franz and Kathleen M. White 136
Lives of women who become autonomous / Ravenna Helson, Valory Mitchell, and Barbara Hart 169
Sex and sex role effects on achievement strivings: Dimensions of similarity and difference / William P. Gaeddert 198
Individual differences in moral development: The relation of sex, gender, and personality to morality / Peter D. Lifton 218
Responsibility and the power motive in women and men / David G. Winter and Nicole B. Barnebaum 247
Gender and individualistic vs. collective bases for notions about the self / M. Brinton Lykes 268
Masculine/feminine: A personological perspective / Rae Carlson 296
Ironies in the contemporary study of gender / Deborah Belle 312
Index 319
Editors and contributors 325
About the author
Abigail J. Stewart and M. Brinton Lykes, eds.
