Rhoda K. Unger

Rhoda K. Unger is a professor emerita of psychology at Montclair State University and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She received her B. S. in psychology from Brooklyn College and her M. A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University. She is the author and/or editor of nine books on the psychology of women. These include Women and Gender: A Feminist Perspective (4th edition; 2004); Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender (2001) and Resisting Gender: Twenty-Five Years of Feminist Psychology (1998). She has been president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association: The Society for the Psychology of Women and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

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