Curriculum Vitae

SANDRA LIPSITZ BEM

(September 9. 2004)

Present Position (half-time phased retirement beginning 7/1/04)

Professor of Psychology, 1981-present
Professor of Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, 1981-present
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

Past Positions
Director of Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University (2001-2004)
Director of Women's Studies, Cornell University (1978-1985)
Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Cornell University (1978-1981)
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University (1971-1978)
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University (1968-1971)

Education
1961-1965: B.A. in Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1965-1968: Ph. D. in Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Grants
Sex Roles: The Behavioral Consequences of Androgyny. NIMH, 1972-1975.
Cognitive Processes Mediating Sex Typing and Androgyny. NSF, 1978-1982.
Children's Thinking About Gender. Rockefeller Foundation, 1986-1988

Honors
Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Contribution to Psychology,
American Psychological Association, 1976.

Distinguished Publication Award, Association for Women in Psychology, 1977.

Young Scholar Award, American Association of University Women, 1980.

The Lenses of Gender selected as the Best Book in Psychology by the Association of American
Publishers for 1993; winner of the Annual Book Award given by the Organization for the Study of
Communication, Language, and Gender in 1994; recipient of a 1994 Distinguished Publication Award
from the Association for Women in Psychology; designated an 1994 Outstanding Book by the
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.

Selected as an “Eminent Woman in Psychology” by the Divisions of General Psychology and

History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association, 1995.

Clinical Psychology Addendum

Education: 1997 - 1999: Clinical Psychology Psy. D. Program, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
(Withdrew after completing all requirements except dissertation)

Practica: 1997 - 1998: Essex County Hospital Center, Cedar Grove, NJ

1998 - 1999: Rutgers College Counseling Center, New Brunswick, NJ

Internship: 1999-2000: APA-approved Clinical Psychology Internship, Cambridge Health

Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA

License: NY State #014630

Position: Part-Time Private Practice (2000-present)

Books

Bem, S. L. (1993) The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press.

Bem, S. L. (1998) An Unconventional Family. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Articles

Bem, S. L. (1967) Verbal self-control: The establishment of effective self-instruction. Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 74, 485-491.

Bem, D. J., & Bem, S. L. (1968) Nativism revisited: A review of Eric H. Lenneberg’s “Biological Foundations
of Language.” Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 497-501.

Bem, S. L. (1970) The role of comprehension in children's problem solving. Developmental Psychology, 2, 351-
358.

Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1970) Case study of a nonconscious ideology: Training the woman to know her place.
In D. J. Bem, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Human Affairs. Belmont, California: Brooks/Cole.

Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1970) Training the women to know her place. Psychology Today.

Bem, S. L. (1972) Psychology looks at sex roles: Where have all the androgynous people gone? Paper presented
at the U.C.L.A. Symposium on Sex Roles.

Bem, S. L. (1973) But what can woman become? A review of J. Bardwick’s “Readings on the Psychology of
Women”. Contemporary Psychology, 18, 450-451.

Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1973) Does sex-biased job advertising “aid and abet” sex discrimination? Journal of
Applied Social Psychology, 3, 6-18.

Bem, S. L. (1974) The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 42, 155-162.

Bem, S. L. (1975) Sex role adaptability: One consequence of psychological androgyny. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 31, 634-643.

Bem, S. L. (1975) Androgyny vs. the tight little lives of fluffy women and chesty men. Psychology Today, 9,
58-62.

Bem, S. L., Martyna, W., & Watson, C. (1976) Sex typing and androgyny: Further explorations of the
expressive domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 1016-1023.

Bem, S. L., & Lenney, E. (1976) Sex typing and the avoidance of cross-sex behavior. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 33, 48-54.

Bem, S. L. (1977) On the utility of alternative procedures for assessing psychological androgyny. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 45, 196-205.
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Bem, S. L. (1977) Psychological androgyny and sexual identity. In P. G. Zimbardo & F. L. Ruch, Psychology
and life. Glenville, Ill.: Scott Foresman.

Bem, S. L. (1978) Beyond androgyny: Some presumptuous prescriptions for a liberated sexual identity. In J.
Sherman & F. Denmark (Eds.), The Future of Women: Issues in Psychology. New York: Psychological
Dimensions.

Bem, S. L. (1979) The theory and measurement of androgyny: A reply to the Pedhazur-Tetenbaum and
Locksley-Colten critiques. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 1047-1054.

Bem, S. L. (1981) Bem Sex Role Inventory Professional Manual. Palo Alto, Calif.: Consulting Psychologists
Press.

Bem, S. L. (1981) Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex typing. Psychological Review, 88, 354-
364.

Bem, S. L. (1981) The BSRI and gender schema theory: A reply to Spence and Helmreich. Psychological
Review, 88, 369-371.

Andersen, S. M., & Bem, S. L. (1981) Sex typing and androgyny in dyadic interaction: Individual differences in
responsiveness to physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 74-86.

Bem, S. L. (1982) Gender schema theory and self-schema theory compared: A comment on Markus, Crane,
Bernstein, and Siladi's "Self-schemas and gender." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43,
1192-1194.

Bem, S. L. (1983) The making of images: A psychological perspective. In Carolyn A. Williams (Ed.), Image
Making in Nursing. Kansas City, Missouri: American Nursing Association, 39-45.

Lewittes, H. J., & Bem, S. L. (1983) Training women to be more assertive in mixed-sex task-oriented
discussions. Sex Roles, 9, 581-596.

Bem, S. L. (1983) Gender schema theory and its implications for child development: Raising gender-aschematic
children in a gender-schematic society. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 8, 598-616.

Bem, S. L. (1984) From biology to feminism: A reply to Morgan and Ayim. Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, 10, 197-199.

Bem, D. J., & Bem, S. L. (1984) Egalitarian relationships: The sex-role revolution begins at home. In A. B.
Grinols (Ed.), Critical thinking: Reading across the curriculum. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Bem, S. L. (1985) Androgyny and gender schema theory: A conceptual and empirical integration. In T. B.
Sonderegger (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 1984: Psychology and Gender. Lincoln, Neb.:
University of Nebraska Press.

Frable, D. E. S., & Bem, S. L. (1985) If you're gender-schematic, all members of the opposite sex look alike.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 459-468.

Bem, S. L. (1987) Masculinity and femininity exist only in the mind of the perceiver. In J. M. Reinisch, L.
Rosenblum, & S. Sanders (eds.), Masculinity/femininity: Basic perspectives. Oxford University Press.

Bem, S. L. (1987) Gender schema theory and the romantic tradition. In P. Shaver & C. Hendrick (eds.), Review
of personality and social psychology (Volume 7). Newbury Park, California: Sage.
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Bem, S. L. (1987) Interview with Sandra Bem (translated into Spanish by C. Aguíñiga & J. Sebastian). Estudios
de Psicología, 32, 3-12.

Bem, S. L. (1989) Genital knowledge and gender constancy in preschool children. Child Development, 60, 649-
662.

Bem, S. L. (1992) On the inadequacy of our sexual categories: A personal perspective. Feminism & psychology,
2, 436-437.

Bem, S. L. (1993) Is there a place in psychology for a feminist analysis of the social context? Feminism &
psychology, 3, 247-251.

Bem, S, L, (1994) Defending The Lenses of Gender. Psychological Inquiry, 5, 97-101.

Bem, S. L. (1994) In a male-centered world, female differences are transformed into female disadvantages.
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 17, B1-B3.

Schellenberg, E. G., Keil, J. M., & Bem, S. L. (1995) “Innocent victims” of AIDS: Identifying the subtext.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 25, 1790-1800.

Bem, S. L. (1995) Dismantling gender polarization and compulsory heterosexuality: Should we turn the volume
down or up? Journal of Sex Research, 32, 329-334.

Bem, S.L. (1995) Working on gender as a gender nonconformist. Women and therapy: A feminist journal, 17,
43-53.

Bem, S. L. (1996) Transforming the debate on sexual inequality: From biological difference to institutionalized
androcentrism. In J. C. Chrisler, C. Golden, & P. D. Rozee (eds.), Lectures on the psychology of women
(pp. 9-21). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Schellenberg, E. G., & Bem, S. L. (1998) Blaming people with AIDS: Who deserves to be sick? Journal of
applied biobehavioral research, 3, 65-80.

Bem, S. L. (1999) Gender, sexuality, and inequality: When many become one, who is the one and what happens
to the others. In P. Moen, D. Dempster-McClain, & H.A. Walker (eds.), A nation divided: Diversity,
inequality, and community in American society. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.
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Selected Recent University Service

Member, Women's Studies Executive Board, Cornell University, 1978--1999.

Sexual Harassment Counselor, Cornell University, 1990-1992.

Senior Sexual Harassment Counselor, Cornell University, 1992-1995.

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Women’s Studies, Cornell University, 1992-1995.

Member of Steering Committee, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Studies, Cornell University, 1996--1998.

Director of Graduate Studies, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Studies, Cornell University, 1996--2002.

Member, Women’s Studies Steering Committee, Cornell University, 2000-2001

Member, Board of University Health, Gannett: Cornell University Health Services, 2002-2004