Hilary Lips is Professor of Psychology, Chair of the Psychology Department and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at Radford University, USA. She has won a number of awards including, the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology, the Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Award from the Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations, the Distinguished American Scholar Award from the New Zealand-United States Educational Foundation, and the Distinguished Member Award from the Canadian Psychological Association Section on Women and Psychology.

• Introduction 1. Gender: Everyone has/does one 2. Power, Inequalities and Prejudice 3. Relationships, Intimacy and Sexualities 4. The Gendered Workplace 5. Gender, Leadership and Public Life 6. Global Patterns of Gender-Related Violence 7. Global Patterns of Gender and Health 8. The Shape of our Future: Gender and the Ageing Population Epilogue: Predictions for the Future

"The text offers an in-depth exploration of the numerous factors at work in the construction of gender identity... the author explores the subject in thorough and highly accessible detail."— Kendall Petersen, Gender Questions