Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women - Softcover

The long-awaited Fourth Edition of Janet Shibley Hyde's Half the Human Experience is a clear, comprehensive, and highly readable text for students with little or no background in psychology. Designed as a core text for courses in the psychology of women, it may also be used in women's studies or in various psychological courses. Scholarly, with the most up-to-date research, the text provides an unbiased perspective and includes the various opposing arguments on each controversial issue. Previous editions have been well received at more than 300 colleges and universities. The Fourth Edition has strong, new chapters on the workplace and on minority experience, and it continues to span other major topics in the psychology of women: -- sex, gender and sexism -- theoretical perspectives -- masculinity, femininity and androgyny -- gender differences in personality, behavior -- lifespan development -- issues in lesbianism and bisexuality -- abilities, achievement, motivation -- female sexuality -- women's health issues -- the victimization of women -- high interest topics such as sexual harassment, incest, and eating disorders -- sociobiology, including the feminist viewpoint The author, Janet Shibley Hyde, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. She is a member of the board of directors of the National Council for Research on Women, editor of the Psychology of Women Quarterly, and a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. Dr. Hyde is well-known as a specialist in the psychology of women, human sexuality, and developmental psychology.