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http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Women-Handbook-Issues-Theories/dp/0275991628/Book DescriptionThe team that produced the first edition of this comprehensive handbook–reviewed as the “definitive” reference and an “extraordinary” tool for research on women’s psychology–updates and expands the content to include the newest and breaking research in this young field. With more than 50 percent of the content new compared to the 1993 edition, this will be of wide interest to students and scholars of women’s psychology. Written by more than a dozen of the most eminent psychologists in this field, the chapters include historical developments in the study of the psychology of women, insights into women’s psychology at stages from conception to senior years, gender stereotypes, and women’s friendships, as well as romantic relationships. Chapters also address women’s health issues from premenstrual syndrome to rape, intimate partner violence and sexual harassment. Women’s work life–from achievement to career development and the integration of work and family roles–is also included.About the AuthorFLORENCE L. DENMARK is Robert Pace Distinguished Research Professor and Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School in the City University of New York. She is a Fellow of 13 divisions of the American Psychological Association. Her honors include the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and the APA Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement for Psychology in the Public Interest. She is also Chair of the Committee on Aging for the United Nations. Denmark has been interviewed and featured widely in media including The Today Show, The McNeil/Lehrer Report, The New York Times, Omni, Psychology Today, Ladies Home Journal, Self, Vogue and Glamour. MICHELE A. PALUDI is Series Editor for the Praeger series, Womens’s Psychologyn. She is Research Professor in the School of Management at the Graduate College in Union University. She has been a full and tenured professor or a faculty member at Hunter College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Kent State University. Among her many authored, edited, or co-edited books is Ivory Power: Sexual Harassment on Campus, which received the Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States. She has served as Chair of the U.S. Department of Education’s Subpanel on the Prevention of Violence, Sexual Harassment and Drug Problems in Higher Education.