Thursday, March 5, in Hedges Conference Room at The Commons on the Cornell campus.
Admission is free.
Thirty years ago, feminist psychologist Naomi Weisstein criticized psychologists for promoting confining images of women, for creating theories not supported by evidence and for ignoring the social context of women's and men's lives. In her lecture, Enns will trace efforts since 1968 to challenge myths about gender and change psychological views of men and women. She will assess whether feminist psychologists have succeeded in creating a more inclusive psychology and will explain how social institutions have accepted this new knowledge. Enns joined the Cornell faculty in 1987. She works part time as a psychologist at the University of Iowa Counseling Service.