This extraordinary text offers fresh insight on the psychology of women. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction, across the lines of race, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation, pulling from the exciting new scholarship that has emerged over the last few years.

""This is simply the best text on women and gender I've seen to date.""
Gwendolyn L. Gerber, John Jay College, CUNY

""This text is likely to become the standard against which books in this area are evaluated.""
Michael Stevenson, Ball State University

""Every so often a textbook is written that far surpasses your most optimistic expectation. This is one of those rare books.""
Josephine Tan, Lakehead University, Canada

""An even better second edition offers scholarship and wisdom in a convincing, readable style from three terrific authors. A great resource students and teachers will love!""
Kathryn Quina, University of Rhode Island

""Engendering Psychology is an excellent text. It's a pleasure to recommend this new edition.""
Joan C. Chrisler, Connecticut College

""It is a pleasure to read a text that incorporates perspectives and research from countries and cultures beyond North America.""
Anne Griffith, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the lines of race, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation, pulling from the exciting new scholarship that has emerged over the last few years. Thoughtful discussion questions emphasize critical thinking skills, as well as encourage students to open a dialogue with both their professors and their peers. This text will help readers understand the concept of gender as a social construct in contrast to the concept of sex, which denotes biological differences. Upon completing this text, readers will have a deeper understanding of women and the knowledge that "woman" is a diverse and multifaceted category.

This volume grew out of a project to conduct a survey of the scientific literature of the United States for items addressing the e. thical and humane issues of animal experimentation. The original purpose of the survey was to provide packground information for the development of a set of guide lines for the use of animals in research then in preparation by The New York Academy of Sciences' Ad Hoc Committee on Animal Research. ! We soon realized, however, that the survey constituted a valuable resource in its own right. In this book we present the results of the literature survey along with relevant information about its legislative and historical con text. We hope that this material will be helpful to biomedical researchers grappling with animal welfare problems as well as to social scientists interested in tracing the evolution of the 20th-century phase of the animal research controversy. The time span covered by the survey was selected to match the 20-year period between the passage of the first federal Animal Welfare Act in 1966 and the most recent legislation regulating animal research, which took effect during 1986. Our analysis examines this transitional period through the pages of the scientific literature. During these 2 decades, animal re search in the United States was transformed. Activist animal protection organizations catapulted troublesome ethical questions to national prom inence, throwing the scientific community2 into turmoil.