| Description |
xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Guilford series on personal relationships |
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Guilford series on personal relationships.
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| Contents |
Moving beyond stereotypes. Do men and women inhabit different worlds? -- Investigating sex and gender differences in personal relationships -- A flowchart model predicting stereotypic interaction behavior -- Overview of the project -- Conclusion -- Sex, gender and emotion. Defining and characterizing emotion -- Methodological concerns -- Research on sex, gender and emotion -- Conclusion -- Communicating intimacy. Defining intimacy -- Two manifestations of intimacy -- Friendships -- Romantic involvements -- Sex differences and sex -- Conclusion -- Communicating control. Power and powerful behavior -- Sex differences in power strategies -- Sex differences in managing interpersonal conflict -- Displays of control in conversational behaviors -- Relational maintenance behaviors -- Conclusion -- Division of household labor. Amount and type of tasks -- Racial considerations -- Explaining the division of labor -- Negotiating couple types and gender identity -- Signs of increased equity -- Conclusion -- Towards an activity-based view of gender. Gender as clusters of activities -- External constraints on the enactment of gender in personal relationships -- Conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-189) and index. |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations.
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Interpersonal communication.
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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| Added Author |
Emmers-Sommer, Tara M.
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Faulkner, Sandra.
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| ISBN |
1572302569 (hardcover :acid-free paper) |
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