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2nd ed. |
| Description |
xix, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-310) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. What's the difference anyway? -- The study of sex differences -- Combining the results of many studies : meta-analysis -- What do meta-analyses tell us about sex differences? -- Are there sex differences in personality? -- Are there sex differences in boys' and girls' activity levels? -- Are there sex differences in risk-taking? -- Are there sex differences in social behaviors? -- Aggression -- Helping behavior -- Moral behavior -- Conformity and social influence -- Group behavior -- Are there sex differences in nonverbal behavior and nonverbal perceptiveness? -- Are there sex differences in sexuality? -- Are there sex differences in criteria for mate selection? -- Are there sex differences in occupational preferences and interests? -- Are there sex differences in cognitive abilities? -- Are there sex differences in physical abilities? -- Are men more variable than women on some traits? -- Beyond meta-analyses : other possible sex differences -- Are there sex differences in mental and behavioral disorders? -- Are there sex differences in emotional experience? -- Are there sex differences in the self-concept? -- Are there sex differences in children's play and friendship patterns? -- Summary. |
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2. Masculinity and femininity : gender within gender -- The search commences -- The analogy between masculinity-femininity and intelligence -- The bipolar assumption -- What is masculinity-femininity related to? -- Masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions -- Cracks in Terman and Miles' edifice -- The rise of androgyny -- Putting androgyny to the test -- Masculinity, femininity, and psychological adjustment -- Whither androgyny? -- But don't masculinity and femininity make sense to most of us? -- Components of masculinity and femininity -- Masculinity and femininity as fuzzy concepts -- Deconstructing and reconstructing masculinity-femininity -- Recapitulation -- Resurrecting masculinity-femininity : gender diagnosticity -- What is gender diagnosticity related to? -- Is there a "deep structure" to masculinity-femininity? -- Summary. |
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3. Theories of gender -- Levels of explanation applied to gender -- Biological theories -- Evolutionary theory -- The genetics of sex -- Hormones and male versus female development -- Structural differences between male and female nervous systems -- Are hormones everything? -- Recapitulating biological theories -- From nature to nurture -- Social learning theories -- Cognitive theories of gender -- Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory -- Gender schema theories -- Social psychological theories of gender -- Gender stereotypes -- Social role theory -- Gender stereotypes as self-fulfilling prophecies -- Stereotype threat -- Self-presentation and social constructionist theory -- Summary. |
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4. The case for nature -- Animal experiments -- Humans with unusual early exposure to hormones -- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia females -- Androgen-insensitive males -- Reductase-deficient males -- Effects of estrogen : diethystilbestrol children and Turner syndrome women -- Females exposed to DES -- Turner syndrome -- Correlational studies of hormones and behavior -- Testosterone and human behavior -- Physical characteristics related to prenatal testosterone -- Other hormones and gender-related behaviors -- Hormones and maternal behavior -- "Natural experiments" and sex reassignments -- Biology and human sex differences -- The case for biological influences : sex differences in aggression, visual-spatial ability, and sexual behavior -- Physical aggression -- Visual-spatial ability -- Sexual behavior -- Demonstrating biological influences on individual differences in masculinity and femininity : behavior genetic studies -- Summary. |
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5. The case for nurture -- Learning to "do gender" -- Boys' and girls' toy preferences -- Parental treatment and the social learning of gender -- Teacher influences -- Peer influences -- Learning gender after early childhood -- Modeling gender -- Learning gender from the mass media -- Self-socialization of gender -- Gender knowledge -- Gender knowledge and sex-typed behavior -- Social influences on gender knowledge -- Consequences of gender stereotypes -- Enacting stereotypes -- Self-fulfilling prophecies and behavioral confirmation -- Stereotype threat : when negative stereotypes undermine performance -- Broader social factors and gender -- Social role theory -- Coda -- Summary -- 6. Cross examinations -- Summary. |
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7. Gender, nature, and nurture : looking to the future -- Causal cascades and causal thickets -- Gender as a complex causal cascade -- Causal cascades and the nature-nurture debate -- Cascades, fulcrums, and social interventions -- Causal cascades and the two faces of gender -- Gender, nature, and nurture : some real-life concerns -- Rearing girls and boys -- Childhood gender segregation : can it be reduced? -- Gender in the classroom -- Solutions for problems faced by girls and boys in the classroom -- The value of same-sex schooling -- Gender and the digital divide -- Sexual harassment and assault : are they male problems? -- Husbands and wives : the nature and nurture of close relationships -- Rearing children -- Divisions of labor -- Harmony, disharmony, and divorce -- Child custody -- Gender in the workplace -- Parental leave, daycare, and mommy tracks -- Sex differences in employment and pay -- Political animals : men and women who govern -- Women and men in the military : the battles of the sexes -- Coda -- Summary -- Glossary of key terms and concepts. |
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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Gender identity.
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Nature and nurture.
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Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
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Nature and nurture. (OCoLC)fst01034619
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Sex differences (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01114336
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| ISBN |
0805853448 (casebound: alkaline paper) |
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9780805853445 (casebound: alkaline paper) |
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0805853456 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780805853452 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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