Dr. Jacquelyn W. White

Dr. Jacquelyn W. White, emeritus Professor of Psychology, has a book that got a national honor. The 2019 PROSE Awards for professional and scholarly excellence were presented at the Association of American Publishers conference. The award for best Multivolume Reference in the Social Sciences went to the “APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women” (Vol. 1: History, Theory, and Battlegrounds; Vol. 2, Perspectives on Women’s Private and Public Lives).  The editors-in-chief are Cheryl B. Travis and Jacquelyn W. White. This two-volume handbook provides scholarly reviews and in-depth analyses of the historical, social, economic, and personal contexts that define women’s psychology. Contributors discuss feminist critiques of gender and sexuality, multicultural feminism, the role of family, workplace, and gender in the construction of women’s identities, therapeutic models of gender, and international perspectives on human rights and reproductive freedom.