ABSTRACT
Developed from an edited series of journal articles into a larger collection with a clear identity and emphasis all its own-one need only browse through the Table of Contents. "The divided lives of women in literature ," "Case studies of agency and communion in women's lives," "A sense of humor," "Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women," "Coping with rape," "Earliest memories: Sex differences and the meaning of experience," "Women's explanations for job changes," "Androgyny and the life cycle: The Bacchae of Euripides" -these are but a few of the topics represented in this diverse and interesting collection. What, then, binds these essays together? First and foremost, this is a book of stories about women, about the conflicts, choices, and opportunities that are present in the lives of women, both real and imagined.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|95 pages
Women’s Consciousness: Public and Private Images
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
E. Nesbit’s Forty-First Year: Her Life, Times, and Symbolizations of Personality Growth
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Telling Our Mother’s Story: Changing Daughters’ Perceptions of their Mothers in a Women’s Studies Course
chapter Chapter 6|20 pages
A Case of Feminist Transformation: A Constructivist-Developmental Perspective
chapter Chapter 7|11 pages
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Sex Role Stereotypes as Expectations for Behavior *
part II|92 pages
The Construction of Women (and Men)
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Humor in Conversational Context: Beyond Biases in the Study of Gender and Humor
chapter Chapter 12|19 pages
Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian Women: Critical Perspectives on Constructing Collaborative Research
part III|56 pages
Innovative Strategies for Examining Social Constructs
chapter Chapter 14|9 pages
Explorations in Feminist Ideology: Surprising Consistencies and Unexamined Conflicts *
chapter Chapter 15|10 pages
Taking the Traditional Route: Some Covert Costs of Traditional Decisions for the Married Career Woman *
chapter Chapter 16|14 pages
Perceptions of Daily Life Scripts and Their Effects on College Women’s Desires for Children
part IV|65 pages
Dichotomizing Sex and Gender: The Use of Fiction