A new feature
of the 2005 AWP conference will be a FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE TRACK. The Science Track is being jointly sponsored
by AWP and the Society for the Psychology of Women of the
American Psychological Association and will consist of four
symposia featuring leading researchers discussing timely topics
concerning women and gender.
Co-Chairs:
Jacqueline White, University of North Carolina-Greenboro
Suzanna Rose, Florida International University
SYMPOSIUM
I: (Re) Conceptualizing Women's Aggression Against Intimates
· Chair: Irene
Hanson Frieze, University of Pittsburgh
· The Myth of Female Passivity: Thirty Years of Revelations
about Female Aggression. Deborah South Richardson, Augusta
State University
· Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrated by Women
within the Context of Victimization History. Jacquelyn W.
White, Kelly N. Rogers, Stacy M. Sechrist & Matthew
J. Paradise, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
· Measuring Gender Differences in Partner Violence:
Implications from Research on Other Forms of Violent and
Socially Undesirable Behavior Sherry L. Hamby
· Theorizing Gender: Women's Aggression and Intimate
Partner Violence. Kristin L. Anderson, Western Washington
University & Jill Cermele, Drew University
· Discussant: Maureen C. McHugh, Indiana University-Pennsylvania
SYMPOSIUM
II: Innovations in Lesbian Psychology
Constructions of gender
by lesbians and queers. Carla Golden, Ithaca College
· The Stories
We Tell: The Lives and Friendship of Older Black Lesbians.
Ruth L. Hall and Michelle Fine, College of New Jersey and
City College/NY
· Relationship
Satisfaction, Coping, and Gay-Specific Stressors in Same-Sex
Couples Who Had Civil Unions. Esther Rothblum, Jelica
Todosijevic, and Sondra E. Solomon, University of Vermont
· Friendship after Breakups:
Who Does and Who Doesn't?Lynne Harkless, Independent Practice, FL,
and Blaine J. Fowers, University of Miami
SYMPOSIUM
III: Gender Related Issues in Research: Trauma, Assessment,
and Treatment
· Gender differences
in response to recovery from a major hurricane. Gail Ironson,
University of Miami
· Assessment of social class, gender, and ethnicity
in HIV research: Do we know what we're doing? Karen Wyche,
University of Miami
· Two treatments for female trauma survivors: Prolonged
exposure and EMDR (eye movement desend and reprocessing).
Blanche Freund, University of Miami
SYMPOSIUM
IV: A Feminist Analysis of Body Image
· Female Trouble":
Objectification and Its Consequences. Tomi-Ann Roberts,
The Colorado College
· In Living Color: Television and the Body Image
Development of Latina Girls. Deborah Schooler, San Francisco
State University
· But how do I look? The
disruptive effects of self-objectification. Diane M.
Quinn, Rachel W. Kallen, & Stephenie R. Chaudoir,
University of Connecticut