The Stereotyping of Women: Its Effects on Mental Health

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Springer Publishing Company, 1983 - 275 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part One: introduction -- 1.Introduction Warning! Sex-role stereotypes may be hazardous to your health/ Esther D. Rothblum and Violet franks -- 2.Sex-role stereotype and mental health: Conceptual models in the 1970s and issues for the 1980s/ Jeffrey A. Kelly -- 3.The development of sex-role stereotypes in Children: Crushing realities/ Marsha Weinraub and Lynda M. brown -- 4.Sex roles and language use: implications for mental health/ Barbara Kirsh -- Part two: Traditional categories of psychopathology -- 5.sex-role stereotypes and depression in women/ Esther D. Rothblum -- 6.Women and agoraphobia: a case for the etiological significance of the feminine sex-role stereotype/ Kathleen A. Brehony -- 7.Sex-role stereotypes and female sexual dysfunction/ Helen E. Tevlin and Sandra R. Leiblum -- Part three: Special problems of living -- 8.Women's assertion and the feminine sex-role stereotype/ Charlene L. Muehlenhard -- 9.Women, weight, and health/ Marilyn A. Zegman -- 10. The resocialization of single-again women/ Judith Worell and Nikki Garret-Fulks -- 11.Sex-role stereotypes and violence against women Patricia A. Resick -- Part Four: Conclusion -- Concluding comments, criticism, and caution / Violet Franks and Esther D. Rothblum.

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Warning SexRole Stereotypes
3
The Development of SexRole Stereotypes
30
Implications
59
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