Jeanne Marecek, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
7 p.m., Forum, Elaine Langone Center
FREE and open to the public
"Beyond Difference: Re imagining Gender, Sex, and Sexualities."
Women's & Gender Studies Lecture
Each spring, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender and the Department of Women's & Gender Studies co-sponsor a distinguished lecture.
Is women's psychology different from men's? Are male-female differences a matter of biology or culture?
Claims about male-female differences lace through self-help books, child-rearing manuals, advice columns, and psychology textbooks. Psychologists have been called on to answer questions about "female nature" and male-female differences since the early 1900s.
Marecek argues that it is time to stop trying to answer such questions. The questions are the wrong questions and definitive answers are not possible. In this talk, she will describe alternate questions and alternate ways that we might investigate gendered social life.
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