Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-grxwn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-15T17:53:35.006Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 5 - Accidental Professor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2022

By
Joan C. Chrisler
Edited by
Jamila Bookwala  and
Nicky J. Newton
Jamila Bookwala
Affiliation:
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Nicky J. Newton
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
Get access

Summary

Here I describe the course of my career, including how my interest in psychology developed, how I found my areas of research interest, and how I met the mentors who supported and guided me. I discuss barriers and challenges and how I overcame them, sum up what I believe to be my major contributions to the field of the psychology of women, and provide some advice that might help others succeed in academia. The chapter also contains some biographic information about my family and early life.

Type
Chapter
Information
Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology , pp. 66 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Chrisler, J. C., Barney, A., & Palatino, B. (2016). Ageism can be hazardous to women’s health: Ageism, sexism, and stereotypes of older women in the health care system. Journal of Social Issues, 72(1), 86–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chrisler, J. C., & Caplan, P. (2002). The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde: How PMS became a cultural phenomenon and a psychiatric diagnosis. Annual Review of Sex Research, 13, 274–306.Google Scholar
Chrisler, J. C., Johnston, I. K., Champagne, N. M., & Preston, K. E. (1994). Menstrual joy: The construct and its consequences. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18(3), 375–387.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chrisler, J. C., & Johnston-Robledo, I. (2018). Woman’s embodied self: Feminist perspectives on identity and image. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chrisler, J. C., & Levy, K. B. (1990). The media construct a menstrual monster: A content analysis of PMS articles in the popular press. Women & Health, 16(2), 89–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collins, L. H., Chrisler, J. C., & Quina, K. (Eds.) (1998). Arming Athena: Career strategies for women in academe. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Google Scholar
Johnston-Robledo, I., & Chrisler, J. C. (2013). The menstrual mark: Menstruation as social stigma. Sex Roles, 68, 9–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malkin, A. R., Wornian, K., & Chrisler, J. C. (1999). Women and weight: Gendered messages on magazine covers. Sex Roles, 40, 647–655.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×