Beth B Hess

Biographic Data

ID5689109
NAMEBeth B Hess
GIVEN NAMESBeth B
FAMILY NAMEHess
SIGNATUREHESS B B
AFFILIATIONSCounty College of Morris
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX5

  • Separate by Degree: Women Students' Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges

    Beth B Hess, Leslie Miller-BernalARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2001

    In the nineteenth century, women's colleges provided many women with access to higher education, yet Susan B. Anthony and other women connected to the women's rights movement favored coeducation. In the late twentieth century, at a time that many single-sex institutions became coeducational, research has indicated the benefits for women of single-sex education. Separate by Degree compares the experiences of women students, in the past as well as …

  • Revisioning Gender

    Margaret L Andersen, Myra Marx Ferree et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1999

  • Biography as Destiny

    Beth B Hess, Barbara LaslettARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1999

  • Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

    Beth B Hess, Sylvia BashevkinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1999

    Feminism underwent perhaps its most difficult challenges in the 1980s, when conservatism reached the height of its influence in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This study explores some beliefs about women and women's movements under Conservative and Republican leaders. By identifying the policies and goals held in common by feminists in all three countries and tracing their collision course with the conservative policies of the …

  • Breaking and Entering the Establishment: Committing Social Change and Confronting the Backlash

    Beth B He, Beth B HessARTICLESocial Problems1999Cited by: 7References: 7

    The occasion of my Presidential address brings to mind one of the first rules of dating, that "you go home with the guy who brought you." My first professional presentation was at SSSP thirty years ago and your honoring me with the organization's presidency has capped a most rewarding, if highly irregular, career. It was in such a nostalgic mood that I confronted, over a year ago, the task of choosing a theme for this meeting, and my first though…

  • Who will Care for Us? Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America

    Beth B Hess, Ronald J Angel et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relationships

    Beth B Hess, Roberta S SigelARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997

  • Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps

    Beth B Hess, Mclanahan et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995Cited by: 1

  • Afterward: A personal reflection

    Open AccessBeth B HessARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies1993Cited by: 1

  • Beyond dichotomy: Drawing distinctions and embracing differences

    Open AccessBeth B HessARTICLESociological Forum1990Cited by: 10References: 24

  • Aging Parents and Adult Children

    Beth B He, Beth B Hess et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1990

  • Social Structure and Aging: Psychological Processes

    Beth B Hess, K Warner Schaie et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

  • Searching for Conceptual Order

    Alan C Kerckhoff, Matilda White Riley et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

  • Analysing Gender, a Handbook of Social Science Research

    Mary Evans, Beth B He et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1989Cited by: 9

    This flags the need to analyse manifestations of resistance to gender initiatives Political Science, Social Politics, European Journal of Women's Studies, Feminist Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization (Wiley-Blackwell), 277-90. Provide users with a "gender lens" on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within Cambridge handbook of social sciences in Australia. Handbook of Research on Scientific and Technological Development i…

  • In Defense of the Introductory Textbook

    Beth B HessARTICLETeaching Sociology1988Cited by: 2

    Although my response to the thoughtful remarks of Fullerton and Graham will of necessity take on the tones of special pleading, there is a general case to be made on behalf of the basic introductory textbook. Yes, they are clonelike, overburdened with production values and ancillary materials, often written by in-house staff, frequently marketed via unethical givebacks to adopting departments, and possibly nearing the point at which they are too …

  • Analyzing gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research

    Beth B Hess, Myra Marx FerreeBOOKAnalyzing gender1987

  • Friendships Through the Life Course: Oral Biographies in Old Age

    Beth B Hess, Sarah H MatthewsARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1987

    Friendships in Biographical Context Friendship Styles Maintenance and Termination Friendships The Significance of Age and Gender to Friendship Through the Life Course Friendships in Old Age Biography and Friendship

  • The Aged in Rural America

    Beth B He, Beth B Hess et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1987

  • Grandparenthood

    Beth B Hess, Vern L Bengtson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • Controversy and coalition: The New Feminist Movement

    Beth B Hess, Myra Marx FerreeBOOKControversy and coalition1985

  • Books in review

    Open AccessSar A Levitan, Robert N Wilson et al.ARTICLESociety1985

  • Women and the Family: Two Decades of Change

    Elizabeth Grauerholz, Beth B Hess et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • The World of the Older Woman: Conflict and Resolutions

    Beth B Hess, Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

    Essays discuss the social, psychological, and legal problems of older women, institutionalization, widowhood, menopause, and social services for older women

  • Aging in Society: Selected Reviews of Recent Research

    Marie R Haug, Marie Haug et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1984Cited by: 7

    This book consists of a selection of papers that were prepared by various authors as background papers for the 1981 White House Conference on Aging. The papers provide an overview of current knowledge on various aspects of aging in the United States. Topics covered include aging and the family economic aspects of an aging population recent trends in the geographical distribution of the elderly population and mortality and health differentials by …

  • Missing Links: Notes on an Impossible Mission

    Marilyn Johnson, Beth B HessARTICLEMarriage & Family Review1984

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