The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology is a unique, state-of-the-art synthesis of the known work, combined with current research trends, in the broad field of gender and psychology.

Table of Contents

• About the Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• PART ONE HOW GENDER IS STUDIED
• 1 Understanding Gender: Methods, Content, and Controversies - Michelle K. Ryan and Nyla R. Branscombe
• 2 The Science and Politics of Comparing Women and Men: A Reconsideration - Alice H. Eagly
• 3 Androcentrism: Changing the Landscape without Leveling the Playing Field? - Peter Hegarty, Orla Parslow, Y. Gávriel Ansara, and Freyja Quick
• 4 Neurosexism in Functional Neuroimaging: From Scanner to Pseudo-science to Psyche - Cordelia Fine
• 5 Gender and Discourse - Tim Kurz and Ngaire Donaghue
• PART TWO DEVELOPMENT
• 6 Gender Development - Kay Bussey
• 7 An Evolutionary Understanding of Sex Differences - Jennifer Byrd-Craven and David C. Geary
• 8 Precarious Manhood - Jennifer K. Bosson, Joseph A. Vandello and T. Andrew Caswell
• 9 Gender-Based Standards of Competence in Parenting and Work Roles - Kathleen Fuegen and Monica Biernat
• 10 Gendering the Psychology of Aging - Susan Kemper
• PART THREE GENDER DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES
• 11 Gender and Personality: Beyond Gender Stereotypes to Social Identity and the Dynamics of Social Change - Luisa Batalha and Katherine J. Reynolds
• 12 The Social Basis of Emotion in Men and Women - Agneta Fischer and Catharine Evers
• 13 Gendered Communication and Social Influence - Linda L. Carli
• 14 The Social Psychology of Gender across Cultures - Serge Guimond, Armand Chatard, and Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi
• 15 Crossing Borders: Intersectional Excursions into Gender and Immigration - Kay Deaux and Ronni Michelle Greenwood
• 16 A Cultural Psychology of Relationship: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology - Tuğçe Kurtiş and Glenn Adams
• 17 Gender Differences in Motivation Shape Social Interaction Patterns, Sexual Relationships, Social Inequality, and Cultural History - Roy F. Baumeister
• PART FOUR CONFLICT AND COPING
• 18 Sexism in Contemporary Societies: How it is Expressed, Perceived, Confirmed, and Resisted - Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers
• 19 Appraising Gender Discrimination as Legitimate or Illegitimate: Antecedents and Consequences - Jolanda Jetten, Nyla R. Branscombe, Aarti Iyer, and Nobuko Asai
• 20 Coping with the Stress of Gender Discrimination - Kimberly Matheson and Mindi D. Foster
• 21 Sexual Harassment: Motivations and Consequences - Anne Maass, Mara Cadinu, and Silvia Galdi
• 22 Reducing Gender-Based Violence - Laurie Ball Cooper, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, and Erin K. Fletcher
• 23 An Essential Debate: Science, Politics, Difference and the Gendered Self - Thomas A. Morton
• PART FIVE GENDER AND SOCIAL ISSUES
• 24 Monstrously Mortal: Women's Bodies, Existential Threat, and Women's Health Risks - Jamie L. Goldenberg, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Kasey Lynn Morris, and Douglas P. Cooper
• 25 Psychological Cliterodectomy: Body Objectification as a Human Rights Violation - Shelly Grabe
• 26 Gender Stereotype Threat among Women and Girls - Diana E. Betz, Laura R. Ramsey, and Denise Sekaquaptewa
• 27 Ceilings, Cliffs and Labyrinths: Exploring Metaphors for Workplace Gender Discrimination - Susanne Bruckmüller, Michelle K. Ryan, S. Alexander Haslam, and Kim Peters
• 28 Psychological Perspectives on Gender in Negotiation - Hannah Riley Bowles
• 29 Affirmative Action and Gender Equality - Faye J. Crosby, Laura Sabattini, and Michiko Aizawa