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Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education
(July 1998)
A Resource Manual for Prevention, Second Edition
Michele A. Paludi - Author
Richard B. Barickman - Author
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Supplies new information on the application of sexual harassment laws in schools, colleges/universities, and the workplace.
Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education brings new and important research to bear on consensual relationships on college campuses, provides new resources for dealing with sexual harassment in elementary and secondary schools, and outlines individualized programs for workplace training. Responding to ...(Read More) |
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Missing Children
(March 1996)
A Psychological Approach to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Stranger and Non-Stranger Abduction of Children
James N. Tedisco - Author
Michele A. Paludi - Author
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Focuses on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.
"Even though parents believe they are capable of keeping their children safe, few are aware of the plethora of ways child abductors can achieve their goals. The public needs to be aware t...(Read More) |
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Sexual Harassment on College Campuses
(March 1996)
Abusing the Ivory Power
Michele A. Paludi - Editor
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An updated and expanded revision of the first edition, which received the Gustavus Myers Center Award for an outstanding book on Human Rights in the United States. Intended for administrators and faculty, it is also a resource book for individuals wanting to make changes in their campus' policy and procedures with regard to sexual harassment.
"Sexual harassment is an important issue which we can, and hopefully will, deal...(Read More) |
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Exploring/Teaching the Psychology of Women
(January 1996)
A Manual of Resources, Second Edition
Michele A. Paludi - Author
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Focuses on how to teach the psychology of women course with emphasis on three main themes: critical thinking skills, integration of knowledge, and multiculturalism.
"A book such as Paludi's provides a ready-made compilation of resources, including selected references, films, organizations, course outlines, and class exercises," noted Contemporary Psychology in their review of the book's first edition. Building o...(Read More) |
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Variations on a Theme
(July 1995)
Diversity and the Psychology of Women
Joan C. Chrisler - Editor
Alyce Huston Hemstreet - Editor
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This is the first book to take a multicultural perspective on the psychology of women, including the issues of ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, and physical abilities.
This book addresses the continuing call to incorporate diversity issues into the scholarship on the psychology of women. Each chapter takes an inclusive look at one aspect of women's lives and shows how the available resea...(Read More) |
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Lesbian Teachers
(November 1992)
An Invisible Presence
Madiha Didi Khayatt - Author
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Teachers, in general, are hired to conform with set values of the community which hires them. They are expected to reflect conventions which correspond with an ideological model of behavior sanctioned by the state and by the community in which they work. In a publicly funded educational system, not only are teachers expected to transmit dominant ideologies, but, as representatives of the state, they are assumed to embody the dominant values of the...(Read More) |
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Physical Appearance and Gender
(February 1992)
Sociobiological and Sociocultural Perspectives
Linda A. Jackson - Author
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"This work is a much needed addition to the literature on the psychology of women. As an instructor of courses in psychology of women, sex and gender, as well as the introduction to women's studies, I have spent a considerable amount of class time discussing feminist analyses of beauty and physical attractiveness. There hasn't been, to date, a text I believed I could use to supplement the material--until Dr. Jackson's. The book is well-conceptual...(Read More) |
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Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment
(November 1991)
A Resource Manual
Michele A. Paludi - Author
Richard B. Barickman - Author
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This book represents the first comprehensive resource manual for understanding and preventing sexual harassment in the academic community and in the workplace.
Studies indicate that sexual harassment is at epidemic proportions in the academy and in the workplace: from 30%-70% of women in U.S. colleges and universities experience some form of sexual harassment (including sexual assaults) each year; a University of Massachusetts study reports...(Read More) |
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From Surviving to Thriving
(July 1991)
Incest, Feminism, and Recovery
Christine Dinsmore - Author
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"This book will be of great value to any survivor of incest. Equally important, Christine Dinsmore teaches the rest of us--therapists, family members, and friends--how to be helpful to the survivor who takes on the task of ending the secrecy, recovering memories, and experiencing feelings. Dinsmore points out that the recovery process is unique for each survivor. You won't find any pat formulas here. Instead, the reader is left with a sensitivit...(Read More) |
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Ivory Power
(January 1991)
Sexual Harassment on Campus
Michele A. Paludi - Editor
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Current estimates suggest that at least 30% of all undergraduate women experience sexual harassment by at least one professor during their four years in college. When definitions of sexual harassment include gender harassment (sexist comments and behavior), the incidence is 70%. The frequency of graduate women and women faculty and administrators who are harassed is even higher. Ivory Power discusses current research and theory on sexual h...(Read More) |
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