ISBN-13: 9780495603450 The sixth edition of Adult Development and Aging is accompanied by an instructor’s manual with test bank. Each chapter begins with a lecture outline that highlights the main points of the chapter. Additionally, supplemental information is included, as are suggested activities and discussion topics. A list of suggested videos is also PREFACE XIII […]
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The Managed Heart
I think my interest in how people manage emotions began when my parents joined the U. S. Foreign Service. At the age of twelve, I found myself passing a dish of peanuts among many guests and looking up at their smiles; diplomatic smiles can look different when seen from below than when seen straight on. […]
Feminist Sociology
New Horizons in Sociology The British Sociological Association is publishing a series of books to review the state of the discipline at the beginning of the millenium. New Horizons in Sociology also seeks to locate the contribution of British scholarship to the wider development of sociology. Sociology is taught in all the major institutions of […]
Feminism Sexuality
for the past thirty-five years, I have participated in a movement to create a usable history of women, one that challenges conventional versions of the past and also speaks to the world around us. The essays in this book document this larger historical enterprise and explore connections between the intellectual task and the political practice […]
Writing Style
Although Adult Development and Aging covers complex issues and difficult topics, we use clear, concise, and understandable language. We examined all terms to ensure that their use was essential; otherwise, they were eliminated. The text is aimed at upper-division undergraduate students. Although it will be helpful if students have completed an introductory psychology or lifespan […]
Major New Features
The sixth edition represents a thorough revision from the fifth edition, with a new chapter discussing neuroscience and aging. Among the most important changes are: • New discussions on the link between brain and behavior. • New discussions of global aging and the economics of aging. • New discussions of microgenetic research and the meta-analytic […]
Introduction to the British Edition
In The Myth of Male Power, I propose a paradigm shift in our assumption chat we have lived in a male-dominated, patriarchal, sexist world. I am proposing that, in Britain as in the United States, we have lived in a world that has been in various ways both male — and female-dominated, both patriarchal and […]
Introduction
Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra Why were you born? Why did you arrive at dusk? In your place a boy Would have been welcome Sweet dates would have Been my reward. The clan would be rejoicing A lamb would have Been slaughtered For the occasion, And I would have Been glorified.1 Somalia grabbed international […]
Mama, PhD
I received my PhD in religious studies, with honors, from Duke University in May 1993. That August I joined the faculty of the University of Florida as an assistant professor. I was never more proud. Five years later I submitted my tenure portfolio, filled with articles and teaching awards, a book and an anthology. I […]
INTRODUCTION
Postfeminism, as an expression of a stage in the constant evolutionary movement of feminism, has gained greater currency in recent years. Once seen, somewhat crudely, as ‘anti-feminist’, the term is now understood as a useful conceptual frame of reference encompassing the intersection of feminism with a number of other anti-foundationalist movements including postmodernism, post-structuralism and […]