The Origins and Activities of Apa's Division of the Psychology of Women

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha T. Mednick ◽  
Laura L. Urbanski
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Support ◽  
Women Psychologists ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The activities of APA's Division of the Psychology of Women are traced from the origins of the Division in 1973 to the present. Division 35 evolved in response to pressures relating to the status of women in psychology as well as concerns about the content and practice of the psychology of women. The Division has fostered significant research on the psychology of women, been an important organizing base for women psychologists in their quest for visibility and influence, and provided institutional support for issues of diversity in psychology and society.

The Psychology of Women and Conservatism: Rediscovering Social Change

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold S. Kahn ◽  
Janice D. Yoder
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

Although one goal of the psychology of women has been to enhance the status of women through social change, this goal has seldom been realized. Theory and research in the psychology of women have focused on gender differences and the personality of women rather than the society that oppresses women. As a result, this research has tended to blame women for their position in society and helped maintain the status quo, which can inhibit the struggle for equality by the women's movement. This process is demonstrated with reference to research on women and achievement. The causes and consequences of the focus on gender differences are discussed and recommendations made for a psychology of women in the service of women.

The Status of Women in Alaska

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Caiazza ◽  
April Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The Status of Women in Wisconsin

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Caiazza ◽  
April Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The Status of Women & Girls in New Haven, Connecticut

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hess ◽  
Rhiana Gunn-Wright ◽  
Claudia Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Haven ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

On the Development of Islamic Jurisprudence

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Current State ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Islam And Democracy

This article examines the state of Islamic jurisprudence with regard to many sensitive issues, such as the status of women and minorities in Islam, Islam and Democracy, hudud punishments. The author explores the current state of Islamic discourse on jurisprudence and identifies three approaches-traditional, secular and reformist. The paper explores the positions of the traditional ulama and the reformist muj­tahids on the mentioned topics and finds the reformist position more sensible and closer to the position of ihe Qur'an and Sunnah. This paper while advocating neo-ijtihad, makes an impressive case for the merit???? and Islamic credibility of the reformist jurisprudence.

Women and Agency in Bankim’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Tagore’s The Home and The World

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manju Dhariwal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Status Of Women

Written almost half a century apart, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) and The Home and the World (1916) can be read as women centric texts written in colonial India. The plot of both the texts is set in Bengal, the cultural and political centre of colonial India. Rajmohan’s Wife, arguably the first Indian English novel, is one of the first novels to realistically represent ‘Woman’ in the nineteenth century. Set in a newly emerging society of India, it provides an insight into the status of women, their susceptibility and dependence on men. The Home and the World, written at the height of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, presents its woman protagonist in a much progressive space. The paper closely examines these two texts and argues that women enact their agency in relational spaces which leads to the process of their ‘becoming’. The paper analyses this journey of the progress of the self, which starts with Matangini and culminates in Bimala. The paper concludes that women’s journey to emancipation is symbolic of the journey of the nation to independence.

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