Biography of sandra ruth lipsitz bemos
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Dr. Sandra Lipsitz Bem:
by Marie Koesterer
" central passion has always been to challenge the long-standing cultural belief in some kind of a natural link or match between the sex of one's body and the character of one's psyche and one's sexuality" (Bem, 1995, p.46).
Dr.
Sandra Lipsitz Bem is a noted psychologist and women's studies professor who pioneered work on psychological androgyny and gender schema theory and has created a substantial body of work regarding the prominence of sex role stereotyping and its effects on Western culture and individual psychology.
Childhood and Young Adulthood
In her autobiographical account of her nontraditional marriage, An Unconventional Family, Dr. Sandra Lipsitz Bem describes her childhood as chaotic and painful (1998). In 1944, she was born Sandra Ruth Lipsitz to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Although both of Dr. Bem's parents worked, the family struggled financially and lived in government-subsidized housi