Women's Studies/ Psychology 732
Psychology of Women
Fall, 2002
Dr. Janet Hyde
Office hours: Th 11-12 & by appt.
Office: 418 Psychology
Phone: 262-9522
Jshyde@wisc.edu
SYLLABUS
Textbooks
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Available at A Room of One's Own.
A collection of articles (list attached) is on e-reserve at the following website:
http//www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/College/circreserve/ereserves/dept.htm
Choose “Psychology” for Department.
Optional
Hyde, J.S. (1996). Half the human experience: The psychology of women. 5th ed. Boston, MA:
Houghton-Mifflin.
Tentative Schedule
September 3 Introduction
Feminist analysis of bias in psychological research
Values clarification exercise
September 10 Nonsexist research methods; social constructionism; feminist theory in
psychology
Read: Denmark et al. (1988)
Peplau & Conrad (1989)
DeLamater & Hyde (1998)
Hare-Mustin & Marecek (1988)
Bargad & Hyde (1991)
September 17 Gender schemas and stereotypes
Read: Bem (1981)
Fiske (1993)
Niemann et al. (1994)
Lytton & Romney (1991)
Plant et al. (2000)
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Spencer et al. (1999)
Steinpreis et al. (1999)
Intro. to meta-analysis
September 24 Gender differences
Read: Hyde et al. (1990)
Eagly & Crowley (1986)
Lightdale & Prentice (1994)
Kling et al. (1999)
October 1 ** Exam 1
Evolutionary psychology vs. sociocultural theory
Read: Buss et al. (1993)
Eagly & Wood (1999)
October 8
Moral development
Read: Gilligan (1982)
Jaffee & Hyde (2000)
Gender development
Read: Bussey & Bandura (1999)
Crouter et al. (1995)
Leinbach & Fagot (1993)
October 15
Women and ethnicity
Read: Myers et al. (2000)
Landrine et al. (1992)
Film: "Ethnic Notions"
October 22
Ethnicity (cont.)
Read: Vazquez-Nuttall et al. (1987)
LaFromboise et al. (1995)
Film: "Slaying the Dragon"
October 29
Mental health issues for women
Read: Russo (1990)
Gallant et al. (1992)
Williams (1994)
True (1990)
Hankin et al. (1998)
Worell & Johnson (2001)
November 5
Violence Against Women
Read: Koss et al. (1987)
Goodman et al. (1993)
Fitzgerald (1993)
VOTE!!
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Holtzworth-Munroe (2000)
Rind et al. (1998)
November 12 **Exam 2
Sexuality
Read: Oliver & Hyde (1993)
Rosen & Leiblum (1995)
November 19 Catch-up day
Women and work
Read: Barnett & Hyde (2001)
Issues in teaching the psychology of women
November 26 Lesbians and sexual orientation issues
Read: Flaks et al. (1995)
Greene (1994)
Bradford et al. (1994)
Diamond (1998)
Division 44 (2000)
December 3
Qualitative research
Read: Ambert et al. (1995)
**Research proposal due
December 10 **Cumulative, integrative learning experience
Remaking theory: Read Taylor et al. (2000)
Course Objectives
1. To become knowledgeable about psychological research and theories on women and gender,
at a level of proficiency such that you would be qualified to teach an undergraduate course on the
psychology of women, and/or begin to conduct psychological research on women, and/or
conduct more gender-sensitive therapy.
2. To become aware of feminist approaches and critiques in psychology.
3. If you're a woman--to understand yourself and other women better.
If you're a man--to understand yourself and women better.
4. The course includes both the cognitive components listed above and affective/experiential
components. The goal of the latter to become more aware of the experiences and feelings of
women, as well as more appreciative of diversity among women along dimensions of ethnicity,
social class, and sexual orientation.
Grading
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Because discussion is integral to this course, attendance is required at all classes. You are
expected to have done the reading for the day in advance of class. There will be 300 possible
points during the semester: 50 points for Exam 1; 50 points for Exam 2; 50 points for class
participation (including the quality of your contributions to discussions); 50 points for questions
on articles (explained below); and 100 points for the research proposal.
You should always come to class prepared, in the sense that you have read, in advance, the
journal articles assigned for that day. We will discuss each article in class, and you should be
prepared to answer questions such as, "What was the major argument made in this article?" or
"What was the major finding in this research?" or "Did you notice any methodological flaws in
this research?"
In addition, each day you should bring to class one question or issue on each article for the day.
The question or issue should be one that would be good for class discussion. You will turn in the
paper with your questions at the end of class so that I can record your points.
Research Proposal
Due Tuesday, December 3
Length: 10-12 pages typed, double-spaced
Write a proposal for a research project to address some significant issue in the psychology of
women. Any topic covered in the textbook or readings is acceptable. If you want to work on
some other topic, please consult with me first, and feel free to consult with me in any case. The
paper should be written in APA style, with an Introduction, Methods, and Hypothesized Results
and Discussion sections. There should be an additional final section entitled Feminist Analysis
of Research Methods, in which you analyze your research methods and explain how they follow
principles of feminist or nonsexist methods. Your proposal will be graded on
(1) the quality of the literature review (but don't get carried away--I don't intend for you to read
50 articles);
(2) the significance of the issue you address and your rationale for why it is significant;
(3) your appropriate application of nonsexist or feminist research methods.
Be sure to use nonsexist language in your writing.
Relevant Journals
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Sex Roles
Feminism & Psychology (British)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (the leading interdisciplinary women's
studies journal)
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Other Notices
I wish to include persons with disabilities fully in this course. Please let me know if you need
any special accommodations in the curriculum, instruction, or assessments of this course to
enable you to participate fully. I will try to maintain confidentiality of this information you share
with me.
Where to take complaints about a Teaching Assistant or Course Instructor
Occasionally a student may have a complaint about a T.A. or course instructor. If that
happens, you should feel free to discuss the matter directly with the T.A. or instructor. If the
complaint is about the T.A. and you do not feel comfortable discussing it with him/her, you
should discuss it with the course instructor. If you do not feel the instructor has resolved the
matter to your satisfaction, then you should speak to the Psychology Undergraduate Advisor, Ms.
Arlene Davenport (room 225 Psychology) or the Department Chair, Professor Chuck Snowdon
(room 238 Psychology). You should also speak to either of these individuals if the complaint is
about the instructor and you do not feel comfortable discussing it directly with him/her.
If you believe the T.A. or course instructor has discriminated against you because of your
religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnic background, you also may take your
complaint to the Affirmative Action Office (room 175 Bascom Hall). If your complaint has to
do with sexual harassment, you may also take your complaint to Ms. Arlene Davenport, the
Psychology Department sexual harassment contact person.
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Films
I felt that we did not have sufficient class time to view films that you might be interested in using
if you taught a psychology of women class. You are welcome to view the films with my
undergrad class, though. Below is a list of show dates and titles of films, together with the
source for the film. The class meets 9:30 - 10:45 T, Th, in 101 Psychology.
Show Date
Title
Source
Tues., Oct. 22
Ethnic Notions
LSS
Videotape, 56 min.
Thurs., Oct. 24
Slaying the Dragon
Interim Multicultural Center
Video, 60 min.
Tues., Nov. 5
PMS (Art Ulene)
Hyde videotape
Thurs., Nov. 14
Fire Eyes
Filmmakers Library*
60 min.
Tues., Nov. 26
Sexual Harassment
Media Education Fdn** (also WS)
23 min.
Tues., Dec. 10
Tough Guise
Media Education Fdn** (also WS)
Videotape, 29 min.
Topics (when not obvious from title):
Ethnic Notions is about African Americans.
Slaying the Dragon is about Asian American women.
Fire Eyes is about female genital mutilation
Tough Guise is about the male role.
*Filmmakers Library
124 East 40th St
New York, NY 10016
(Also WS means Women’s Studies owns it, too.)
**Media Education Foundation
26 Center Street
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 586-4170
FAX: (413) 586-8398
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Fall, 2002
Dr. Janet Hyde
PSYCHOLOGY/WOMEN'S STUDIES 732. PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
Contents
Ambert, A., Adler, P. A., Adler, P., & Detzner, D. F. (1995). Understanding and evaluating
qualitative research. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 879-893.
Bargad, A., & Hyde, J.S. (1991). Women's studies: A study of feminist identity development in
women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 15, 181-202.
Barnett, Rosalind C. & Hyde, Janet S. (2001). Women, men, work, and family: An expansionist
theory. American Psychologist, 56, 781-796.
Bem, S. L. (1981). Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex-typing. Psychological
Review, 88, 354-364. (plus response articles following)
Bradford, J., Ryan, C., & Rothblum, E. D. (1994). National Lesbian Health Care Survey:
Implications for mental health care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,
62, 228-242.
Buss, David M. & Schmitt, David P. (1993). Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective
on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232.
Bussey, Kay & Bandura Albert (1999). Social cognitive theory of gender development and
differentiation. Psychological Review, 106, 676-713.
Crouter, Ann, Manke, B., & McHale, S. (1995). The family context of gender intensification in
early adolescence. Child Development, 66, 317-329.
DeLamater, John D. & Hyde, Janet S. (1998). Essentialism versus social constructionism in the
study of human sexuality. Journal of Sex Research, 35, 10-18.
Denmark, F., Russo, N.F., Frieze, I.H., & Sechzer, J.A. (1988). Guidelines for avoiding sexism in
psychological research. American Psychologist, 43, 582-585.
Diamond, Lisa M. (1998). Development of sexual orientation among adolescent and young adult
women. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1085-1095.
Division 44/Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns (2000). Guidelines for
psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. American Psychologist, 55, 14401451.
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Eagly, A. & Crowley, M. (1986). Gender and helping behavior: A meta-analytic review of the
social psychological literature. Psychological Bulletin, 100, 283-308.
Eagly, Alice H. & Wood, Wendy (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior:
Evolved dispositions versus social roles. American Psychologist, 54, 408-423.
Fiske, S. T. (1993). Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping. American
Psychologist, 48, 621-628.
Fitzgerald, L.F. (1993). Sexual harassment: Violence against women in the workplace. American
Psychologist, 48, 1070-1076.
Flaks, D. K., Ficher, I., Masterpasqua, F., & Joseph, G. (1995). Lesbians choosing motherhood: A
comparative study of lesbian and heterosexual parents and their children. Developmental
Psychology, 31, 105-114.
Gallant, S. J., Popiel, D. A., Hoffman, D. M., Chakraborty, P K., & Hamilton, J. (1992). Using daily
ratings to confirm premenstrual syndrome/Late Luteal Dysphoric Disorder, Part II, What
makes a "real" difference? Psychosomatic Medicine, 54, 167-181.
Goodman, L.A., et al. (1993). Male violence against women: Current research and future directions.
American Psychologist, 48, 1054-1058.
Greene, B. (1994). Ethnic-minority lesbians and gay men: Mental health and treatment issues.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 243-251.
Hankin, Ben, Abramson, L., Moffitt, T., Silva, P., McGee, R., & Angell, K. (1998). Development of
depression from preadolescence to young adulthood: Emerging gender differences in a 10year longitudinal study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 128-140.
Hare-Mustin, R.T., & Marecek, J. (1988). The meaning of difference: Gender theory,
postmodernism, and psychology. American Psychologist, 43, 455-464.
Holtzworth-Munroe, Amy (2000). A typology of men who are violent toward their female partners:
Making sense of the heterogeneity in husband violence. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, 9, 140-143.
Hyde, J.S., Fennema, E., & Lamon, S.J. (1990). Gender differences in mathematics performance: A
meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 139-155.
Jaffee, Sara & Hyde, Janet S. (2000). Gender differences in moral orientation: A meta-analysis.
Psychological Bulletin, 126, 703-726.
Kling, Kristen C., Hyde, J., Showers, C., & Buswell, B. (1999). Gender differences in self-esteem:
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A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 470-500.
Koss, M.P., Gidycz, C.J., & Winiewski, N. (1987). The scope of rape: Incidence and prevalence of
sexual aggression and victimization in a national sample of higher education students.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 162-170.
LaFromboise, Teresa, Choney, Sandra B., James, Amy & Running Wolf, Paulette R. (1995).
American Indian women and psychology. In H. Landrine (Ed.), Bringing cultural diversity
to feminist psychology: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 197-240). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
Landrine, H., Klonoff, E.Z., Brown-Collins, A. (1992). Cultural diversity and methodology in
feminist psychology: Critique, proposal, empirical example. Psychology of Women
Quarterly, 16, 145-163.
Leinbach, M. & Fagot, Beverly (1993). Categorical habituation to male and female faces: Gender
schematic processing in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 317-332.
Lightdale, J. R., & Prentice, D. A. (1994). Rethinking sex differences in aggression: Aggressive
behavior in the absence of social roles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
20, 34-44.
Lytton, H., & Romney, D. M. (1991). Parents' differential socialization of boys and girls: A metaanalysis. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 267-296.
Myers, Linda J., Abdullah, S. & Leary, G. (2000). Conducting research with persons of African
descent. In Guidelines for research in ethnic minority communities. (Pp. 5-8). Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association.
Niemann, Y. F., Jennings, L., Rozelle, R. M., Baxter, J. C., & Sullivan, E. (1994). Use of free
responses and cluster analysis to determine stereotypes of eight groups. Personality
and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 379-390.
Oliver, M.B., & Hyde, J.S. (1993). Gender differences in sexuality: A meta-analysis. Psychological
Bulletin, 114, 29-51.
Peplau, L.A., & Conrad, E. (1989). Beyond nonsexist research: The perils of feminist methods in
psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 13, 379-400.
Plant, E. Ashby, Hyde, Janet S., Keltner, Dacher & Devine, Patricia G. (2000). The gender
stereotyping of emotions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, 81-92.
Rind, Bruce, Tromovitch, Philip, & Bauserman, Robert (1998). A meta-analytic examination of
assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples. Psychological Bulletin,
124, 22-53.
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Rosen, Raymond C. & Leiblum, Sandra R. (1995b). Treatment of sexual disorders in the 1990s: An
integrated approach. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 877-890.
Russo, N.F. (1990). Overview: Forging research priorities for women's mental health. American
Psychologist, 45, 368-373.
Spencer, Steven J., Steele, Claude M., & Quinn, Diane M. (1999). Stereotype threat and women’s
math performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 4-28.
Steinpreis, Rhea E., Anders, K. & Ritzke, D. (1999). The impact of gender on the review of the
curricula vitae of job applicants and tenure candidates: A national empirical study. Sex
Roles, 41, 509-528.
Taylor, Shelley E., et al. (2000). Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-befriend,
not fight-or-flight. Psychological Review, 107, 411-429.
True, R. H. (1990). Psychotherapeutic issues with Asian American women. Sex Roles, 22, 477-486.
Vazquez-Nuttall, E., Romero-Garcia, I., & De Leon, B. (1987). Sex roles and perceptions of
femininity and masculinity of Hispanic women: A review of the literature.
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 11, 409-426.
Williams, L. M. (1994). Recall of childhood trauma: A prospective study of women's memories of
child sexual abuse. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 1167-1176.
Worell, Judith & Johnson, Dawn M. (2001). Feminist approaches to psychotherapy. In J. Worell
(Ed.), Encyclopedia of women and gender (pp. 425-437). New York: Academic Press.
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