Handbook Of Gender Research In Psychology: Volume 1: Gender Research In General And Experimental Psychology

Joan C. Chrisler Donald R. McCreary Editors Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology Volume 1 Gender Research in General and Experimental Psychology 123 Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology Joan C. Chrisler . Donald R. McCreary Editors Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology Volume 1: Gender Research in General and Experimental Psychology 123 Editors Joan C. Chrisler Department of Psychology Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London CT 06320 USA [email protected] Donald R. McCreary Department of Psychology Brock University St. Catharines ON Canada York University Toronto ON Canada [email protected] ISBN 978-1-4419-1464-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1465-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1465-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941984 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald R. McCreary and Joan C. Chrisler Part I 1 History of Psychology 2 Emergence and Development of the Psychology of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Rutherford and Leeat Granek 19 3 Emergence and Development of the Psychology of Men and Masculinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam V. Cochran 43 4 Emergence and Development of the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristin A. Hancock and Karen Greenspan 59 Part II Research Methods 5 Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah K. Murnen and Linda Smolak 81 6 Qualitative Inquiry in Gender Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary M. Gergen 103 7 Measuring Gender: Options and Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew P. Smiler and Marina Epstein 133 8 Cross-Cultural Research Methods and the Study of Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gordon B. Forbes 9 Gender Diverse Recruitment to Research Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah J. Bowen, Chanita Hughes Halbert, Alecia Robinson, and Uli Boehmer 10 Interpreting and Communicating the Results of Gender-Related Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Hegarty and Felicia Pratto 159 179 191 v vi Part III Contents Brain and Behavior 11 The Physiology of Sex Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah Saucier and Crystal Ehresman 2