Examines a young girl's responses to "feminist" and "patriarchal" folktales. Explains that issues raised by tales involved the exercise of personal agency, physical strength of males and females, and the symbolic significance of dress. Contends that findings challenge psychological theories about the appeal of folktales to young children, and…

Proposes that the "Girl's Own Annual 1927" displays a distinctly Victorian construction of womanhood which was at odds with the views of "modern" girls in the 1920s. Examines tensions created by these differing social expectations and focuses on the intergenerational debate about the role of women in work and marriage. Suggests that the magazine's…

Places the "Journal of Documentary Reproduction", published by the American Library Association, in an historical context and defines its domain in terms of the characteristics of its contributors. Authorship characteristics include occupation, institutional affiliation, geographic distribution, and gender. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of the digital divide in access to the Internet focuses on differences in people's online skills and therefore access to information based on age, gender, and technology experience. Findings suggest wide differences in search strategies, ability to find various types of content, and how long it takes. Demographics of respondents are…

In studying the education of African American women, some researchers focus on the plight of girls in school (minimizing or ignoring racial/ethnic distinctions), while others focus on the crisis situation of African American male students. This paper reviews these two approaches, then discusses the intersection of race, gender, and class and…

Investigated the relationship of sex, gender role attitudes, and sexual orientation to perceptions of rape. College students responded to scenarios depicting the rape of heterosexual and homosexual males and females. Men assigned more blame to victims (particularly male victims) than did women. Traditional gender role attitudes positively related…

Primarily middle class, white college students read brief descriptions of stay-at-home or employed mothers or fathers, estimated how often they performed several parenting behaviors, and rated them on communion and parenting effectiveness. Respondents estimated more parenting behaviors for mothers than fathers in both roles, gave stay-at-home…

Suggests the value of ethnographically informed methods in the psychology of women, emphasizing the role of generation in psychology. Examines evidence from an ongoing, ethnographically informed study of high school graduates in the mid-1950s and late-1960s. The two generations of graduates have distinctive accounts of their experiences, with the…

Discusses how to theorize diverse, working-class male students' masculinities within an inner-city, multicultural context. Data from discussions with boys at one inner-city London school are used to illustrate the boys' complex constructions of culturally entangled masculinities. Examines boys' constructions of "bad boy" masculinities…

Provides a historical review of feminist theory and research that provides a context for and offers critical challenges to contemporary ideas about the meanings and intents of feminist inquiry and evaluation. This overview demonstrates the continued importance of paying attention to gender, particularly in education. (SLD)

Measured individualism/collectivism, gender attitudes, and the relationship between these constructs among Ukrainian and U.S. American women. Surveys of 55 U.S. female college students and 50 Ukrainian female college students indicated that Ukrainians were more individualistic and held more traditional gender attitudes than Americans. There was a…

Career counseling with the intellectually gifted requires awareness of general concerns regarding this population as well as specific issues that may affect gifted males, females, and minorities. Use of career assessment instruments requires attention to their appropriateness for the gifted as well as gender and cultural bias. (Contains 65…

Examined the psychometric properties of the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale in a group of African American college students, comparing scores from this sample to scores of a predominantly white norming base. While there were no significant differences between the norming sample and study sample, significant differences were found between African…

Discusses the benefits of reflection in higher education, highlighting one academic's reflections on herself as a woman in academia and how the attitudes she learned during her childhood and youth created problems during her own higher education and in her work as an academic. Also looks at educational discrimination against other minority groups.…

Examines racial politics of knowledge production in Brazil, comparing trends in women's studies scholarship in North America, England, and Brazil by investigating the significance of the intersection of race and gender in women's studies. Discusses how minority women's feminist scholarship has traveled to Brazil and how work by Afro-Brazilian…