Hilary M. Lips

Hilary M. Lips (born 1949) is an Emerita professor and research faculty in Psychology at Radford University. She is the founder of the Center for Gender Studies at Radford University and was its director from 1989 to 2015, and was the chair of the Department of Psychology from 2003 to 2015. She is the author of a variety of books, including Women, Men and the Psychology of Power; Sex and Gender: An Introduction; A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture and Ethnicity; and Gender: The Basics.

Early life and education Hilary Lips was born in 1949 in Ottawa, Canada. She attended the University of Ottawa for Science from 1965 to 1967, completed a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Windsor in 1970, an M.A. in Social Psychology at Northwestern University in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Northwestern University in 1974. She has credited reading The Feminine Mystique during her undergraduate studies as the beginning of her development as a feminist.

Women, Men, and the Psychology of Power was published in 1981, and in a review for Canadian Psychology, Rhona Steinberg notes that Lips "presents her ideas from a dual perspective, that of a feminist and that of a social psychologist" and that Lips "maintains that some of the observable differences in personality characteristics between females and males may be a function of structural variables, such as differential power bases, rather than stable inherited traits." Joane Norris reviewed the book for Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, writing that Lips' approach to power differences between men and women "seems ideal because it provides a framework for the analysis of power relations and, more importantly, because its contextual approach assumes that inequities are created or exaggerated by socio-cultural forces. While such forces may be difficult to overcome fully, they are at least identifiable and somewhat malleable."

The first edition of Sex and Gender: An Introduction was published in 1988, and the seventh edition was published in 2020.

The first edition of Gender: The Basics was published in 2014, and in a review for E-International Relations, Caron Gentry writes, "The arguments and examples that Lips uses throughout the book make one thing very clear: it is time for the world, not just particular parts of the world or particular populations, to face up to the implications of gender inequality. [...] These are political problems that involve thinking about how resources are disbursed and how such dispersal is dependent upon the gender hierarchy."

Selected works Lips, H. M., & Colwill, N. L. (1978). The Psychology of Sex Differences. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Lips, H. M. (1981). Women, Men and the Psychology of Power. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Lips, H. M. (1991). Women, Men and Power. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Lips, H. M. (2016). A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture and Ethnicity. Fourth edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. (Third Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill. 2006, reissued 2010 by Waveland Press; Second Edition, 2003; First edition, 1999, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishers) Lips, H. M. (2019). Gender: The Basics. Second edition. Oxford, UK: Routledge. (First edition, 2014) Lips, H. M. (2020). Sex & Gender: An Introduction. Seventh edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. (Sixth edition, Boston: McGraw-Hill. 2008; Fifth edition, 2005; Fourth edition: 2000; Third edition: Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1997; Second edition: 1992; First edition: 1988) Lips, H. M. (2021). Women across Cultures. Cambridge University Press

Honors and awards 1984 Elected Fellow to the American Psychological Association, Division 35 (Psychology of Women) 1997 Elected Fellow to the American Psychological Association, Division 1 (General Psychology)

Personal life Lips married Wayne K. Andrew in 1986.