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Title Taking sides. Clashing views in gender / selected, edited, and with introductions by Jacquelyn W. White.

Publication Info. Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, [2009]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.3 T136T    Check Shelf
Edition Fourth edition.
Description xxxii, 380 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Unit 1. DEFINITIONS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES: A MOVING TARGET -- Is anatomy destiny? -- Is gender identity innate? -- Do sex differences in careers in mathematics and sciences have a biological basis? -- Unit 2. DIFFERENT STROKES: THE QUESTION OF DIFFERENCE -- Are women and men more similar than different? -- Are different patterns of communication in women and men innately determined? -- Are the fight-or-flight and tend-and-befriend responses to stress gender-based? -- Unit 3. VIOLENCE IN THE DAILY LIVES OF WOMEN AND MEN -- Are expressions of aggression related to gender? -- Gender symmetry: do women and men commit equal levels of violence against intimate partners? -- Does pornography reduce the incidence of rape? -- Unit 4. FROM OZZIE AND HARRIET TO MY TWO DADS: GENDER IN CHILDHOOD -- Should same-sex couples be able to marry? -- Can lesbian and gay couples be appropriate parents for children? -- Are fathers essential for children's well-being? -- Is fetal sex selection harmful to society? -- Unit 5. FROM 9 TO 5: GENDER IN THE WORLD OF WORK -- Does the "Mommy Track" (part-time work) improve women's lives? -- Can social policies improve gender inequalities in the workplace? -- Is the gender wage gap justified? -- Are barriers to women's success as leaders due to societal obstacles? -- Unit 6. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: DOUBLE STANDARDS? -- Is female circumcision universally wrong? -- Should "Abstinence-Until-Marriage" be the only message to teens? -- Can women's sexuality be free from traditional gender constraints?
Subject Sex role.
Gender identity.
Sex differences.
Sex discrimination.
Equal pay for equal work.
Sex preselection.
Gay parents.
Female genital mutilation.
Debates and debating.
Added Author White, Jacquelyn W.
Added Title Clashing views in gender
Gender
ISBN 9780073515298
0073515299
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