PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Double Jeopardy, Devaluation, Aspirin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3121
• Professor: Marytheresa Howard

Document Summary

The study on gender: women share global characteristics- power, reproduction, women"s movements have helped to improve women"s lives, feminists believe in equality- different forms of feminism e. g. liberal, radical, cultural. Radical: hard core fundamentalists: take everything to the limit. Cultural: what is going on in each culture*: psychology has tended to ignore women- women have contributed to psychology, gender study emphasizes differences, definitions: sex, gender, gender roles, gender stereotypes. **women tend to be ignored, men are first and for most a patriarchal society, women are different. Hidden from view: few women psychologists mentioned in texts- biographies, textbooks (many psychology text book, you open it and when they make a reference they only use the last name, will not say male or female. Unisex- tending towards yes they are male; most stats textbooks are by women) If mentioned are stereotypic in context or male oriented.