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Diversity Topics | |
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Preface | |
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About the Author | |
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Foundations for a Psychology of Women | |
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All the Women in the World | |
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How They Differ | |
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What They Share | |
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Real Life: Life in Rural Africa | |
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Historical Overview | |
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Early Women's Movements | |
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Women's Movements Today | |
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Feminism | |
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Psychology Views Women | |
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Women's Contributions to Psychology | |
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Current Status of Women in Psychology | |
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Women's Psychology: A Unique Field | |
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Psychology of Women and the Study of Gender | |
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Will the Field Remain Relevant? | |
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Points to Keep in Mind | |
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Meaning Is Relative | |
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Gender and Context Are Inseparable | |
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Biases Are Everywhere | |
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Individuals Vary More Than Groups | |
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There's an Exception to Every Rule | |
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Socialization and Culture Are Crucial to Gender | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Web Resources | |
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Studying Women and Gender | |
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Traditional Research Methods | |
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Experimental Methods | |
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Quasi-Experimental Methods | |
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Correlational Methods | |
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Evaluating Traditional Methods | |
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Nonsexist Research Methods | |
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Feminist Methods | |
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Concerns with Traditional Research | |
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Featured Study: Feminist Study of Menopause | |
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Organizing Themes | |
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Integrating the Approaches | |
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Research on Gender Differences | |
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Are Males and Females Really So Different? | |
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How Are Differences Detected? | |
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Commentary: The Practical Significance of Gender Differences | |
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Where Do We Stand on Comparative Gender Research? | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Web Resources | |
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Explaining Gender | |
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Psychodynamic Theories | |
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Freud and Biological Identity | |
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Evaluation | |
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Commentary: Phyllis Freud Turns the Tables | |
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Post- and Neo-Freudians | |
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Social-Learning Theory | |
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Reinforcement and Imitation | |
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Evaluation | |
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Cognitive Theories | |
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Cognitive-Developmental Theory | |
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Featured Study: Gender Awareness in Children | |
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Gender Schema Theory | |
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Social-Role Theory | |
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Structured Social Roles | |
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Evaluation | |
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Feminist Perspectives | |
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Gender as Social Construction | |
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Evaluation | |
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Critique: How Well Do the Theories Do? | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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How Biology Affects Gender | |
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Genetics | |
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Gender Determination | |
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Genetic Complications | |
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Sex Hormones | |
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Gender Categories | |
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Prenatal Development | |
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Consequences of Prenatal Hormonal Conditions | |
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Hormones and Development | |
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Commentary: Are There Five Sexes? | |
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Hormones and Behavior | |
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The Brain | |
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Hormonal Influences | |
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Hemispheric Lateralization | |
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Sex and Brain Size | |
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Biological Theories of Gender | |
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Biosocial Theory | |
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Featured Study: Mistakes of Gender and Gender Identity | |
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Evolutionary Psychology | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Assigning Roles to Women | |
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Family Socialization | |
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Do You Want a Boy or a Girl? | |
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Parents and Babies | |
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Who Does What? | |
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Girl's World, Boy's World | |
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Racial and Cultural Variations | |
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How Strong Is Parental Influence? | |
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Gender Roles Across the Life Span | |
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Teachers and Schools | |
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Media | |
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Television | |
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Commentary: An African American Perspective of TV | |
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Featured Study: Gender Stereotypes in Disney Films | |
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Newspapers | |
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Magazines and Books | |
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Other Media | |
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Media Representations of the Female Body | |
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Commentary: What Do We Learn from Barbie? | |
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Play and Sports | |
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Play Group Structure | |
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Athletic Organizations | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Web Resources | |
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Communicating | |
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Women's Talk ... Men's Talk | |
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Do Women Really Talk a Lot? | |
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Interrupting | |
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Intonation and Pitch | |
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Standard Speech | |
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Tentative Speech | |
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Pointedness | |
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Research Limitations | |
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Women, Men, and Language | |
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Featured Study: Culture, Gender, and Conversation | |
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Commentary: Guess What-Women Are Funny! | |
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The Other Ways We Communicate | |
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Eye Gaze | |
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Touch | |
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Facial Expressions | |
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Personal Space, Posture, and Appearance | |
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Women's "Intuition" | |
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How Language Represents Women | |
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The Normative Male | |
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The Pejorative Woman | |
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Language and Thought | |
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Commentary: What's in a Title? | |
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Gender-Inclusive Language | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Web Resources | |
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Reasoning About the World | |
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Are Women as Smart as Men? | |
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Gender and Variability of Scores | |
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Race and Culture | |
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The Cognitive Abilities of Women and Men | |
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Those Famous Verbal Abilities | |
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Those Infamous Math Scores | |
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Ethnic Variations | |
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Spatially Different? | |
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Commentary: Single-Sex Classes? | |
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What We Remember | |
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Explaining Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities | |
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Achievement | |
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Motivations | |
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Explaining the Successes and the Failures | |
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Featured Study: Are Girls "Helpless" When It Comes to Computers? | |
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Self-Confidence | |
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Ethnic and Cultural Differences | |
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Reasoning Morally | |
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Kohlberg's Theory | |
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Gilligan's Response | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Work | |
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Overview | |
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Where Do Women Work? | |
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What Do You Want to Be? | |
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Traditional Careers | |
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Nontraditional Careers | |
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Eccles' Model of Occupational Choice | |
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Discrimination | |
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Hiring Practices | |
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Financial Inequities | |
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Featured Study: How Much Do You Think You Should Earn? | |
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Comparable Worth | |
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Promotion Practices | |
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Affirmative Action | |
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Combining Employment with Family | |
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Women's Expectations | |
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Maternity Leave | |
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Real Life: I Want a Career and I Want a Family ... | |
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Housework | |
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Well-Being | |
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When a Woman Retires | |
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Earnings | |
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Adjustment | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Personality and Social Interactions | |
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Aspects of Personality | |
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Five-Factor Model | |
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Levinson's Life Structure | |
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Stone Center's Relational Theory | |
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Power and Behavior | |
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Aggression | |
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Commentary: Crossing the Line | |
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Assertiveness | |
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Competition | |
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Leadership | |
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Featured Study: Identity and Leadership in Cross-Cultural Contexts | |
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Prosocial Behaviors | |
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Who Empathizes? | |
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Who Helps? | |
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Who Nurtures? | |
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Who is Swayed? | |
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Other Components of Personality | |
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Self-esteem | |
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Emotions | |
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Friendship | |
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Women Who Are Friends | |
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Real Life: African American and White Lesbian Friendships | |
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Men and Women Can Be Friends | |
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Real Life: Guy Friends | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Contemporary Life | |
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Dating and Commitment | |
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Selecting a Partner | |
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Dating Scripts | |
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Commentary: Dating by "The Rules" | |
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Marriage and Partnerships | |
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Is Love Important? | |
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Different Versions of Marriage | |
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Is Marriage Satisfying | |
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Infidelity | |
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Living Together: Significant Others | |
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Divorce or Separation | |
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What Causes Divorce? | |
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The Consequences for Women | |
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Featured Study: Racial Differences in Reaction and Coping with Separation and Divorce | |
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Having Children | |
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Why We Have Children | |
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What We Expect | |
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The Realities of Motherhood | |
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Variations on Child Rearing: Single, Minority, Lesbian Motherhood | |
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Parenthood Changes Marriage | |
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Real Life: The Motherhood Experience | |
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Childcare Issues | |
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Staying Single | |
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Why We Stay Single | |
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Its Disadvantages | |
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Its Advantages | |
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Lesbians | |
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Labels Confine Our Perceptions | |
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Stereotyping Lesbians | |
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Lesbians in Relationships | |
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Commentary: Same-Sex Marriages | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Web Resources | |
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Health and Reproduction | |
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Toward a Health Care System for Women | |
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Gender Bias | |
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Racial Bias | |
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Overall Health and Fitness | |
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Weight | |
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Poor and Minority Women | |
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Problems Women Face | |
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Heart Disease Is Not Just for Men | |
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The Insidious Killer, Lung Cancer | |
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The Once Silent Epidemic, Breast Cancer | |
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Real Life: When Cancer Strikes | |
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Other "Female" Cancers | |
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The Menstrual Cycle | |
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Menarche and Puberty | |
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Commentary: If Men Could Menstruate | |
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"Female" Problems | |
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Pregnancy | |
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Fertility and Infertility | |
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How We Feel, How They Feel | |
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Real Life: Being Pregnant | |
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The Teenage Pregnancy Epidemic | |
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Childbirth | |
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The Stages of Labor | |
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Cesarean Delivery | |
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Postpartum Adjustment | |
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Abortion | |
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Psychological Reactions | |
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Menopause | |
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Physical Changes | |
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Psychological Reactions | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Sexuality | |
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Sexuality and Our Beliefs | |
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Conducting Research | |
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Commentary: Sexology and Feminism | |
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An Entrenched Double Standard | |
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Emerging Sexuality | |
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Infancy and Childhood | |
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Learning about Sex | |
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Adolescence | |
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Real Life: Sexual Experiences | |
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Explaining Sexual Behaviors: Script Theory | |
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Adult Sexuality | |
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Ethnic Variations | |
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The Middle Years and Beyond | |
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Lesbian Sexuality | |
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Biology or Culture? | |
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Contraception | |
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Methods | |
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Real Life: Who Should Be Responsible for Contraception? | |
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Use and Nonuse | |
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Featured Study: "When You Carry Condoms All the Boys Think You Want It" | |
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Sexual Problems | |
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases | |
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Sexual Dysfunctions | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Violence in Women's Lives | |
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Rape | |
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Just How Prevalent Is Rape? | |
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Myths and Scripts | |
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Stranger Rape | |
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Commentary: The "Rape" of Mr. Smith | |
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Acquaintance and Date Rape | |
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Marital or Relationship Rape | |
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The Consequences | |
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Recovery | |
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Real Life: The Aftermath of Date Rape | |
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Real Life: Helping Someone Who Has Been Raped Heal | |
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Men Who Rape | |
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Preventing Rape | |
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Incest | |
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Childhood Sexual Abuse | |
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The Effects Last a Lifetime | |
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Battering | |
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The Victims | |
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The Abusers | |
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Social Conditions | |
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The Cycle of Abuse | |
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Why Do Some Women Stay? | |
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Featured Study: Attachment Histories of Abusers | |
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Harassment | |
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Definition and Types | |
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At Work | |
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At School | |
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Among Peers | |
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The Effects of Harassment | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Mental Health | |
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Diagnosis | |
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What Constitutes "Good" Mental Health? | |
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A New View of Mental Health | |
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Diagnostic Criteria | |
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Gender Bias | |
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Racial and Cultural Biases | |
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Depression: Beyond Sadness | |
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Diagnosis and Characteristics | |
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Explaining Gender Differences | |
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Real Life: The Beast | |
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Anxiety Disorders | |
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Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks | |
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Eating Disorders | |
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Anorexia | |
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Real Life: Wasted | |
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Bulimia | |
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Prognosis | |
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Substance Abuse | |
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Tobacco | |
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Alcohol and Other Drugs | |
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Therapy | |
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Traditional Approaches | |
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Nonsexist Therapy | |
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Feminist Therapy | |
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Racial and Cultural Issues | |
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Conclusions | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Key Terms | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Epilogue | |
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The Importance of Gender | |
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Common Themes | |
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Conclusions | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |