This article explores the affordances provided by altering the way in which a traditional structured classroom is perceived. The article, through an exploration of reconfiguring a classroom space in a drama intervention, outlines the affordances provided to young vulnerable people and the adults that they work with. Such reconfigurations are…

With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This study examines the essence of having an Alpha Female identity for 13 undergraduate women at a Midwestern university. Extensive interviews were conducted; transcripts were…

The author presents ideas which grope toward a concept of individual identity, not one steeped in the roles dictated by society. An increased awareness on the part of counselors themselves is advocated. (BY)

Woman as temptress, woman on a pedestal, and woman as mother are myths which describe women's yearnings and fears; they bind women and men to limited roles. Another image for womanhood is "wholeness", suggesting health, interdependence, and freedom; it means accepting one's humanity and overcoming social blocks to growth. (Author/AJ)

Mutual and self perceptions of racial images of white, black, and Japanese Americans are studies among adult, college student, and school child age groups in California. The major hypothesis of this paper is that the amount of minority absorption of negative images is considerably less than twenty years ago. (Author/JB)

Reports results of a survey in which 200 teenaged girls indicated which television woman was like them, which one they would like to be like, which would be the best friend and the best mother, which women exhibited the most control over their situations, and which female television star most resembled the "typical American female." (GT)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether recent social changes and consequent malintegration with regard to sex roles have created stressful repercussions for men as well as for women; nearly one third of the men interviewed experienced some anxiety over their perceived failure to live up to the norm of masculine intellectual…

Consensus about the differing characteristics of men and women exists across groups differing in sex, age, marital status, and education: postiviely-valued masculine traits form a cluster entailing competence; positively-valued feminine traits reflect warmth-expressiveness. (Author/JM)

Argues that the concept of "librarian as teacher" is an organization fiction, and that this fiction is dysfunctional being both harmful and costly. (Author/CWM)

Describes a project designed to test the feminist hypothesis that the Cinderella-style fairytales promoted by Anglo-American society harmfully reinforce restrictive images of girlhood and womanhood. Results indicate that girls 9 to 11 years of age are "resisting readers," able to criticize and manipulate--as well as enjoy--the gender images…

The role of self-perception and other personal characteristics in women's leadership abilities and acceptance of leadership roles is discussed. The importance of replenishing one's emotional and physical resources to function at high professional and personal levels is emphasized. (MSE)

Students agreed that mathematicians are rational, wise, responsible, and cautious, an image which was more compatible with males' self-descriptions than females'. All students described writers as creative, individualistic, independent, and sensitive. (Author)

Examines self-consistency and self-enhancement motivation roles in adolescent cigarette smoking. Respondents were 1,971 fifth through eighth graders. They were asked to provide information about the number of cigarettes they had smoked in their lifetime and to rate themselves and most smokers on nine dimensions tapping coolness, sociability, and…

Information processing, beliefs, and motivations can be coupled with the principle of causal attributions to provide a framework for assessing the causes to which individuals attribute their own behavior. For example, an elderly man who forgets to buy something at the store presents himself with an identity based on cultural stereotypes--in this…

Research has shown that girls and boys begin at equal levels of performance in mathematics and science, but that during the middle school years differences have been observed in both science achievement and science attitudes of males and females. It appears that once science becomes an option for females, they often do not select science…