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A highly readable textbook for undergraduates that describes both women's roles in world politics and the impact of world politics on women's roles. ... Read more

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Bringing together many highly regarded specialists in the field of AD/HD, Drs. Nadeau and Quinn have organized an in-depth resource for clinicians. Several important topics unique to women that have received little attention elsewhere are addressed, including the need to rethink DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, the impact of hormones upon AD/HD in women, the use of medications during pregnancy, and the range of coexisting conditions that complicate and often mask AD/HD in women. ... Read more

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Valuable information from two top experts
You cannot go wrong with any book by Drs. Nadeau and Quinn, including this one.It is primarily an in-depth guide for clinicians who treat women with ADHD. But, in my experience, clinicians' guides often provide the most helpful books to read before you begin the search for an ADHD specialist. Once you know the recommended protocols, such guides provide a benchmark by which to judge a potential therapist's or doctor's expertise.

Quinn and Nadeau are highly respected pioneers in the detection and treatment of ADHD in women and girls.And if you've found that most healthcare professionals are undereducated on ADHD in general, wait until you learn how little they know about the unique angle gender takes.ADHD not only might manifest differently in females, but there are also other psychological and physical issues, such as hormonal cycles and pregnancy, to consider. And this information is found literally nowhere else.

I also recommend their other books on this subject, including "Understanding Women with ADHD," "Understanding Girls with ADHD," and "When Moms and Kids have ADD."

That said, their expert knowledge extends well beyond female ADHD into all aspects in both genders and throughout the lifespan. Together or individually, they have contributed many helpful standouts to the ADHD library and are popular speakers at national conferences.

Comprehensive resource on AD/HD in women
This is a MUST READ for anyone searching for more information on how AD/HD manifests itself in girls and women. This would be an excellent resource for medical doctors to help make them aware that AD/HD in girls and women IS real and not just "in their heads."

Great AD/HD Resource
This is a great resource forprofessionals who treat and work with females with AD/HD, females with AD/HD, and parents of females with AD/HD. Though the book may be intended for professionals, the setup of the book is very ADD Friendly and the language is easy to understand.

I think reading this book will be very benefical to women with AD/HD and family members of females with AD/HD. It may put females ahead of the game when they seek treatment for AD/HD. It may give them a better idea of whether the professional who is treating them acutally understands AD/HD.

Females who are currently in treatment for AD/HD should consider asking the professional treating her if he or she has read this book. If the answer if no it may be in her best interest to suggest that he or she does. ... Read more

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Art therapy enables the client and therapist to explore issues that may ordinarily be beyond words; one such issue is the complexity of gender, which can be a subject of therapy in a myriad range of ways. This is convincingly demonstrated by the contributions to this book, which cover such topics as internalized homophobia in therapist and client; art and pregnancy, childbirth and reproductive loss; art therapy with women-only and men-only groups; feminist art therapy; and gender stereotypes. These wide-ranging papers cover both theoretical and practical topics, giving clinical examples and instances of clients' artwork to illustrate their arguments.

The contributors, all established art therapists, bring a wide range of experiences and perspectives to the topic of gender in art therapy. Professionals and students in this field will find the insights contained in this book both fascinating and valuable. ... Read more

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This Second Edition summarizes the state of the art of gender issues in fieldwork both in anthropology and sociology. Warren shows how the researcher's gender affects both the fieldwork relationships and the production of ethnography. The authors focus is more empirical than theoretical; using literature on gender and ethnography, together with their own experiences as women ethnographers, they focus on ways in which researchers represent these experiences through narrative.

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• How is gender constructed in the media?
• To what extent do portrayals of gender influence everyday perceptions of ourselves and our actions?
• In what ways do the media reinforce and sometimes challenge gender inequalities?

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Issues in Gender explores how gender roles operate in and through work, sexuality, popular culture, family, and across global perspectives. This brief collection of non-fiction and fiction essays examines constructions of femininities and masculinities and foregrounds intersections of race, class, and sexual preference as both shaping and shaped by gender.Brief apparatus encourages writers to think critically about the ideas raised and challenges them to reconsider personal perspectives on gender issues in light of the readings. Individuals interested in reading selections about the gender roles in society. ... Read more

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A little outdated.
This was used in a Gender Studies course I took. Most of it goes back to the 1990s, and some of the issues in it are not as relevant now, or have changed somehow. However, it does discuss a lot broad issues that are relevant in any era. ... Read more

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Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.

It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated.

In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations.

For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher—especially if the teacher is female.

Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literally cannot say.

Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes.

A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy. ... Read more

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Simply stated
This book is a great resource for understanding a few basic differences between boys and girls.I had a copy, lent it to a friend, and just bought another one for my husband to read.Highly recommend it to anyone, parent or not!It's been great just to understand the opposite sex in any situation!

Read this book at your own RISK
I am amazed that for most of the women who reviewed this book, the biggest issue was Sax's stand on breast feeding.I could not believe the consistent slant of sexism in this book.Let's start with Sax's statement that women would receive pay equal to men, if they only had the guts to ask for it, like men do.He sights a study about how often recent males grads ask for raises as opposed to female grads who don't usually ask.What he never even considers is the response of the employer.Do women who ask for raises get them as often as men?Are men who ask viewed as "ballsy" by their employers while women are viewed as "needy and grasping"?

Sax concludes that women are biologically designed to take fewer risks than men and we need to be trained in "dare taking" as young girls, because being too cautious can be detrimental to our success in the business world.Women should be trained against our nature, so it will go better for us.Oddly enough, when later he makes a case that most "normal" men are biologically designed to associate aggression, violence and rape with arousal and sex there is no suggestion that perhaps men should be trained against this nature.Girls should be trained at an early age to jump off chairs onto mattresses but boys don't need to be taught that violence against women is not acceptable sex practice.That is the way men are made.Girls should be taught how to say "no" more firmly.And you are worried about breast feeding???

At another point in the risk-taking discussion, Sax points out that young men will risk extra-marital sex at the drop of a hat and it actually increases their popularity among their peers (fellow risk takers), while girls won't risk it as much (there they go again being cautious-didn't they learn anything in `dare training?') because it diminishes their status among peers.He uses this to show that males take more risks than females.What he never even considers is how much more risky it is for a girl to have sex outside of a financially supportive relationship than it is for a boy.The worst a boy risks from his sex encounter is a sexually transmitted disease while a girl risks that, a nine month pregnancy (or an abortion-which is no party), and possibly the responsibility for a dependant that will be with her for the next 18 years.Seems to me, any girl willing to risk that just blew the gauge off Sax's sexist risk-o-meter.

Any respect I had for Sax at the beginning of this book was lost by his lack of insight into his own gender bias.He repeatedly looks at research and studies at a surface level that serves his own agenda, never asking the deeper questions of a thinking man (OR woman). If this book and Sax represents the frontline in the emerging science of sex differences, we're in big trouble people.And if the most any woman can find to complain about is his archaic position on breast feeding, then we're in even bigger trouble than that.

This is a good one.
I've been in public education for 34 years and have read many books on adolescents.This is one of the very best.The author has such insight and practical suggestions.I've used some of them with my students.And I have loaned my book out to other teachers who find it equally as helpful.Easy to read.It's a must for anyone who works with children or has children of their own.It will make you want to celebrate the differences between the sexes and challenge you to use those differences to encourage kids to reach their highest potential.

Great Book!
Excellent book! A must for any teacher, or anyone interested in understanding the differences between men and women!

Good companion to Boys Adrift
I read Boys Adrift first, then came back and read this one. It is a good companion to the Boys Adrift and gives me a better understanding of where Dr Sax is coming from. As a parent I will change some discipline action now that I understand that my daughter will understand if I say I am 'disappointed' in her behavior. And my sons may just need to have privileges removed for bad behavior. Excellent explanation on what kind of discipline works for different age groups. Great book, well written, easy to follow and very enlightening. ... Read more

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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in gender studies. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading psychologists and other social commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. Students will be exposed to a rich, exciting, and emotionally and politically charged body of theory, research, and practice. TAKING SIDES: GENDER, containing 20 issues organized into six parts, presents hotly debated issues in contemporary scholarly and public discourse. Students will actively develop critical thinking skills by analyzing opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments. The issues will challenge students to consider what is sex, what is gender, and when is either relevant, and why. They will discover that what might appear to be binary, biologically based distinction is so much more.

An Instructor’s Resource Guide (available online only) accompanies the book. For each issue, the following have been provided: a synopsis of each author’s position on the issue, teaching suggestions, and multiple-choice and essay questions. The teaching hints consist of suggestions for generating class discussion around the themes raised by the clashing essays. ... Read more

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Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important source of interdisciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. . ... Read more

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Are there differences in the levels of access given to male and female researchers in the field setting? Does gender influence or limit researchers in the types of questions that they are allowed to investigate? Warren, a well-known field researcher, addresses these issues using examples from anthropological, sociological and organizational research. In essence, the author shows that ethnography, as the polished product of field research, cannot be understood without explicitly taking into account the ways the gender of the researcher influences both fieldwork relations and the production of the final report.Using a wide range of examples, Gender Issues in Field Research successfully discloses gender differences that continue to affect researchers. It will serve as an excellent text for field research, anthropology, or women's studies courses."[Gender Issues in Field Research] would be especially useful in a research methods course and for any researcher who has an investment in conducting nonsexist analyses. . . . [It] brings a different perspective to the continuing development of research methodology from a feminist perspective."--Feminist Collections"Brings a review of gender issues that will be profitable for the beginning fieldworker as well as those more advanced scholars now keenly attuned to the problematics of reflexivity in this method....It is perhaps her section on gender and knowledge that Warren's contribution moves to the leading edge of current concerns about reflexivity and ethnography.This volume had an excellent bibliography of recent literature, which she has cited and which provides an avenue into this new era and arena of ethnography/fieldwork for those who wish to explore."--Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ... Read more

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This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in gender studies. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading psychologists and other social commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. Students will be exposed to a rich, exciting, and emotionally and politically charged body of theory, research, and practice. TAKING SIDES: GENDER, containing 20 issues organized into six parts, presents hotly debated issues in contemporary scholarly and public discourse. Students will actively develop critical thinking skills by analyzing opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments. The issues will challenge students to consider what is sex, what is gender, and when is either relevant, and why. They will discover that what might appear to be binary, biologically based distinction is so much more.

An Instructor's Manual accompanies the book. For each issue, the following have been provided: a synopsis of each author's position on the issue, teaching suggestions, and multiple-choice and essay questions. The teaching hints consist of suggestions for generating class discussion around the themes raised by the clashing essays. ... Read more

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This book aims to provoke discussion about current participatory approaches and to improve the understanding and practice of these approaches.

The widespread take-up of participatory approaches among governments, NGOs and other organizations across the development sector has created a need for quality assurance and evaluation into the methods used. "The Myth of Community" addresses this need by critically assessing how women can be involved more appropriately and equally in participatory approaches and how gender issues can be tackled more meaningfully.

Containing a rich array on contributions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, The Myth of Community provides a variety of viewpoints and perspectives from those most closely involved in participatory approaches to development.

The contributors discuss the importance of conceptual clarity, appropriate methods and methodologies, and supportive organizations and institutional structures. ... Read more

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A poll as recently as 2000 revealed that a third of the population thinks "there are general characteristics about women that make them less qualified to serve as president." As the public and the media rely on long-held stereotypes, female candidates must focus even harder on the way they want to define their own image through traditional mass media, such as television, and new forms, such as the internet. Gender and Candidate Communication digs deep into the campaigns of the last decade sifting through thousands of ads, websites, and newspaper articles to find out how successful candidates have been in breaking down these gender stereotypes. Among their findings are that female candidates dress more formally, smile more, act "tougher" when they can, and prefer scare tactics to aggressive attack ads.

Gender and Candidate Communication also presents the most comprehensive, systematic method yet for identifying and understanding self-presentation strategies on the web. The internet may be the medium of the future, but Bystrom has found that coverage on the web tends to draw even more heavily on old stereotypes. No close observer of campaigns, gender, or the internet will be able to ignore their findings. ... Read more

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Great mix of research and insight
Drawing upon their personal research, the authors combine their findings with great insight to elaborate on the role of women in politics. Many different levels and types of political contests are discussed and the emerging role of the Internet and candidate Web sites as a political tool is extremely interesting. A great book for anyone interested in a women's role in our political system and how they are viewed by voters. ... Read more

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This anthology of contemporary articles (and court cases provides a philosophical analysis of race, sex and gender concepts and issues. Divided into three relatively independent yet thematically linked sections, the anthology first addresses identity issues, then injustices and inequalities, and then specific social and legal issues relevant to race, sex and gender. By exposing readers to both theoretical foundations, opposing views, and "real life" applications, the anthology prepares them to make critically reasoned decisions concerning today's race, gender and sex social issues.Sex and Gender Identity. Sexuality and Sexual Orientation. Race and Ethnicity. Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism and Homophobia. Equality and Preferential Treatment. Discriminatory Harassment. Identity Speech and Political Speech. Sexual Speech. Sexual Assault.For anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of today's Race, Sex, and Gender issues. ... Read more

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Karsten provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of gender-related issues and their impact on management. It combines theoretical information about women's workplace roles, tokenism and power, typically found in Women's Studies literature, with information on topics such as career planning, mentoring, and networking, more commonly discussed in business-oriented books dealing with the progress of executive women. Experiences unique to women of color are incorporated, as are sex-role stereotypes and socialization processes that have affected both females and males. A style of management consistent with an organic structure is presented first along with a discussion of the changing nature of managerial work. A historical overview of women's constributions to management theory are unique features of the book. Equal employment opportunity laws and regulations are covered thoroughly, and sexual harassment is addressed, from the viewpoints of both organization and those affected by this serious workplace problem. Management of workforce diversity, seen as essential for organizations that wish to fully develop all human talent to remain competitive globally, is discussed next. Among other topics explored are assertiveness, balancing career and family or personal life, and women's roles in international management. Case studies, adapted from actual events, also are included. This book is an important resource for business executives and students who wish to gain a better understanding of current gender-related challenges facing organizations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 6264 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gender Issues in Advertising Language.
Author: Nancy Artz
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: 22Issue: 2Page: 20

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Calling all feminists
This book is for all you liberal feminists out there.Don't buy it if you really want a good read.It's great as a door stop, though.

Essential reading for you and your college-bound daughter
Written by an accomplished and well-published anthropologist, Gender onCampus, covers both academic and practical ground.It is at once a manualfor college students, especially women, looking for guidance in genderrelations on campus; as well as a solid academic treatment of social sexualrelations on campuses.Sharon Gmelch is a former director of women'sstudies at a liberal arts campus.She writes from experience as well aswith the studied eye of a professional anthropologist.

Don't let your daughter leave for college without this book!
Sharon Gmelch's book is the perfect mix of academic insight into genderrelations on campuses today with advice to students seeking to benefit fromthe college experience fully.This very well organized book is both amanual for students, aswell as a useful resource in gender studies,women's studies and other college classrooms.Written by a well-knownanthropologist, the book is both a field study and a practical guide.Eachchapter, on topics like eating, dating, sports, the gendered classroom,ends with practical hints on how to seek advice or get help if you face difficulties in college. Parents should read it, and it definitely shouldbe included in the suitcase of every college student, both male and female,setting off to college. ... Read more