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Designed to engage students with its unique writing style and critical thinking, this text provides an overview to the study of Gender while emphasizing cross cultural/multicultural issues to demonstrate what's truly universal about Gender. Galliano's text has been extensively class-tested at Texas AandM University and has been carefully evaluated against nearly 100 detailed student reviews. ... Read more

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Gender with an Attitude
This book is an introductory textbook about many facets of gender.Topics covered include: the definition of gender, theories of gender, gender and the body, gender and development, gender and relationships, gender as social performance, gender and sexuality, gender and education, gender and work, gender and health, gender and the media, and gender and power.At the beginning of each chapter is an outline of section headings, followed by a list of learning objectives.Immediately before the main text of each chapter is a short anecdote for thought or discussion involving the topic featured in the chapter.Interspersed in the text are boxes with "Critical Thinking Challenges," designed to get readers to stop and ponder claims or issues more deeply.There are also feature boxes with short articles about specific topics in more depth or across cultures.Technical terms appear in bold print in the text and are defined at the bottom of the pages on which they appear. At the end of each chapter is a summary section, with main points listed as bullet statements, and suggestions for using the InfoTrac online subscription resources.The chapters do not have study questions or suggestions for written exercises.End material includes references (50 pages!), a name index, and a subject index.The book is illustrated with numerous graphs, illustrations, and photographs.

The depth and quality of research that went into this book are highly commendable.The author summarizes an enormous quantity of research, providing both a historical perspective and an update on current developments, and synthesizing the varied results into coherent chunks for those who are just beginning to explore the field.Some topics are presented more evenly than others, however, and in the area of development of gendered behavior, Galliano seems to be strongly in the camp of those who claim that such behavior is mostly learned through cultural practices rather than due to genes and hormones.In general, Galliano comes across as having a very strong feminist agenda that drives her manner of presenting the research, rather than striving towards a more objective approach.

I'm glad that I wasn't required to read this book for a course, because Galliano's style, particularly in the opening chapters, is excruciatingly condescending, to a degree that I have never seen before in a textbook.She starts off the text by arguing to readers that they don't know anything about gender, and what they do know is wrong.While that may be true to some extent, a more positive pedagogical approach would be to focus on what the readers actually do know, and build up from there, rather than tearing their self-confidence apart from the beginning.The style of writing is uneven-in some chapters, the text is very matter of fact, simply reporting the research and synthesizing the results in a professional manner.In other chapters, Galliano slips into informality, denigrating both the research and the readers, as for instance, when noting inconsistent experimental results, she writes "Uh-oh! At this point you may need to transform that rigid safety helmet [which she has earlier warned readers that they will need when reading about this research] into a more flexible critical thinking cap."As a mature reader, I find such comments particularly off-putting, and I suspect teenage readers might find them even more so.

In addition to these stylistic problems, the text also contains a number of inaccuracies, or possible typos.For example, the text states, "gonadal development in males is affected whenever an X chromosome is present."Well, that's true, since an X chromosome is virtually always present (except in 0Y males).Perhaps what was meant here was a second X chromosome, but that's not clear from the text.Galliano goes out of her way to include material about cultures beyond American borders for this text, but she is not entirely familiar with the cultures, since she has comments such as "Under Islam, women lost the right to choose their own marriage partner, to manage their own property, and in some societies, the right to obtain divorce."A little more research into the history of Middle Eastern cultures would show that women didn't lose these rights under Islam, since they never had them in that region of the world before Islam.In fact, Islam expanded rights for women living in this region beyond what the pre-Islamic culture allowed them; for example, under Islam, women were given the right to turn down perspective marriage partners, and to inherit at least some property.Hopefully, such mistakes will be corrected in any future editions.

In sum, while the coverage of material in the book is extensive and presented well in some places, in other places, the bias in presentation is inappropriate.If you are looking for a textbook to use for an introductory course on gender, this one might make a potentially good resource to dip from, as long as you avoid the more heavily biased chapters (unless, of course, your intent is to present that bias as fact).And if this book has been assigned reading for a class, take it with a large grain of salt. ... Read more

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Men Demystified!
Are you in a fog about the opposite sex? I sure was. I'm a busysingle mom and I read this clever book in two hours! Finally, I knowthe really importantdifferences between men and women. I feel empowered!

A guide to the differences between men and women?Whatever.
This book definately has some entertainment value, but I don't think that is why people are reading it.Hello people! If you're going to believe an author because she wrote a book, you need some help.Did anyone takethe time to look at her sources?Cosmopolitan, People, GoodHousekeeping...these are just a few.There is very little research to backany of the assertions that are made in this book.Yes, the book does makesome valid points, but stop trying to break the world into strictlymasculine and feminine.After reading this book I felt like I fit more ofthe characteristics of a man than a woman.Whatever you (the readers)do...please do not take this book to heart.There's little support, andkeep in mind that the author is not conducting actual experiments orobservations to validate the points.This book gives all of us thatactually research psychological issues a bad name. ... Read more

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Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings emerge overlapping and often contradictory views of middle-class female reformers, court and law enforcement officials, working-class teenage girls, and working-class parents.

Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. The first began in 1885 with the movement to raise the age of consent in statutory rape laws as a means of protecting young women from predatory men. By the turn of the century, however, reformers had come to view sexually active women not as victims but as delinquents, and they called for special police, juvenile courts, and reformatories to control wayward girls. Rejecting a simple hierarchical model of class control, Odem reveals a complex network of struggles and negotiations among reformers, officials, teenage girls and their families. She also addresses the paradoxical consequences of reform by demonstrating that the protective measures advocated by middle-class women often resulted in coercive and discriminatory policies toward working-class girls. ... Read more

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Very Good
This is a great history lesson on the treatment of young women.It is also very readable.I finished it over the course of one day.

Delinquent Girls and their Minders
A pathbreaking work in women's history and the history of deviancy, this book argues (if not entirely convincingly) for a new interpretation of the history and relationship of girl delinquents and women reformers. Odemtraces the history of middle class women reformers towards sexualdelinquency by young girls through the particularly rich case history ofLos Angeles County. Noting the diverse cultures in L.A. (white, workingclass, Hispanic, African-American) Odem argues that many girls who becamelabeled "wayward" were acting out against oppressive andrepressive families who held old-fashioned and patriarchal views of girls'sexuality. Odem also explores the eventually oppressive route thatreformers took in "retraining" wayward girls. ... Read more

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Anyone who has been following the new brain science in the popular press--and even those whose casual reading includes journals along the lines of Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinated by the puckish observations of Brown University biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establish the cultural biases underlying current scientific thought on gender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposing inconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical and theoretical structures that support new research. "One of the major claims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--not science--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infants or the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear and convincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seemingly unpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. --Regina MarlerBook Description
This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.

Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms - sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed - and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality. ... Read more

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It's lengthy but worthwhile reading
This is an excellent book where the author discusses both the biological and social (environmental) aspects of gender to show the process of how society imprints meaning to our sexual bodies.

sex & gender
Sexing the Body is a thick book, and an important one. The section of footnotes is nearly as long as the text of the book (which can be complicated when reading; I ended up using two bookmarks). That said, it covers the part of the conversation that most of us don't have when we talk about the difference between sex and gender. I have a friend who reads my stuff - she's a feminist, and smart. But whenever I say that we don't really know if there are only two sexes, she always writes "you mean genders here?" in the margin. But no, I mean sex. I mean XX or XY. Or "with penis" or "with clitoris." And that's exactly what Anne Fausto-Sterling covers in this book: how we came to decide that there are two sexes, how (through the times) science came to that standard, and why it's wrong and when it's wrong.

The science of gender
This book is covers the science and politics of gender in areadable language. Fausto-Sterling examines biological experiments on lab animals as well as the history behind our concepts of male and female. She describes gender as an "interaction between small groups of people...[that] involves institutional rules."
It's a well thoughtout book full of useful information to anyone studying gender.

Gender seen from a particular perspective
As a transgendered person who is trying to read as much information as possible about gender, this book does supply alot of historic, scientific and theoretical background. It is another important addition to my library. That being said, I was taken aback by her comments regarding transexuals on pp 253 as a "type of human" and "stereotypical member of their sex to be".If I misunderstood the inference, I apologize.If not, I am greatly offended and wonder why marginalizing my existence supports yours. Read Judith Butler as a comparison to this work.

Understanding Gender Through A New Lens
Anne Fausto-Sterling's account of all genders and sexes (not just male/female, but everything in between) provides a humanitarian outlook which demonstrates just how far our culture will go to enforce gender dichotomies. About one in 5000 births results in an intersexed (ambiguous genitalia) infant. Most of the time doctors assign a sex to these babies, believing they could never grow into well-adjusted adults with ambigious sex organs. Yet, these surgeries usually include the removal of some or all nerve tissue leading most post operative intersexed people wishing they had never been touched when they grow older. Some of these stories are truly heart breaking and Fausto-Sterling not only explores the history behind these surgeries, but their impact on the day to day lives of thousands of individuals. Giving voice to a group that's not heard from much in mainstream media, Sexing the Body is a must read for anyone interested in the development of gender identity or social injustice. ... Read more

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No laughing matter
Once a leading pop culture touchstone, the Mann Act has gone the way of the hi-fi and bakelite.In a way that's too bad, because as this terrific work of legal and social history shows, the Act was a sad chapter in the history of American efforts to legislate private behavior.

Langum provides a thorough account of the Mann Act's history.Highlights include the more well-known defendants, like Charlie Chaplin and Humbert Humbert.The analysis is at once concise and evocative--his description of the hazards of "affirmative discretion" gave me a new handle on Ken Starr.The narrative sometimes gets bogged down in all the cases, but my only real complaint is that he didn't find space to namecheck PDQ Bach and his immoral porpoises. ... Read more

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With the growth of the older adult population and theincreasing need for healthcare providers with geriatric training,students and practitioners must become familiar with the multifacetedissues of elderly sexuality.
This text features a combination of research findings, clinical casestudies and specific guidelines for assessment and intervention. Avariety of topics typically neglected in this population, such as bodyimage and eating disorders, HIV, the long-term impact of sexual traumain late life, sexuality in institutional settings, sexuality forpartners of older adults with dementia and other chronic illnesses,traditional and non-traditional relationships, and information aboutmedications that can cause sexual dysfunction are reviewed in detail.
In addition, practitioners are given practical suggestions forinterviewing older adults about sexual issues, working withcharacter-disordered older adults, managing sexualized transference inthe therapeutic relationship, mediating conflict between professionalson interdisciplinary teams, and assessing HIV and HIV-induceddementia.
This volume will be of interest to both clinicians and students ofpsychology, social work, gerontology, sociology, and physical therapy. ... Read more

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Questions of Gender is a text/reader featuring readings on various topics related to the intersection of Gender Studies and Psychology, designed specifically for an undergraduate audience.With coverage of such key topics asDefining Sex and Gender, Cross Cultural Perspective on Gender, Gender Identity, Gender and Relationships, the text can either be used as a main text or a supplementary reader. Questions of Genderincludes many challenging primary sources written by important gender scholars, and each piece is framed by useful pedagogy (introductory essays, review questions, reflection questions, chapter summaries, key terms) to aid in student comprehension. Among the contributors are the following notable male and female gender scholars: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Janet Hyde, David Buss, Kay Deaux, Patricia Hill-Collins, Kenneth Dion, Alice Eagly, Michael Kaufman & Harry Brod, Susan Fiske, Rhoda Unger, and many more. ... Read more

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TRANSFORMING PSYCHOLOGY, TRANSFORMING OURSELVES
Reprinted from forthcoming issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly with the persmission of Cambridge University Press:

Into the midst of debates about whether Psychology of Women courses are superfluous in the presenceof increasing (and often more politically palatable) Psychology of Gendercourses, steps Yoder's (1999) Women and Gender: Transforming Psychology.The book's title aptly demonstrates the inextricable linkage between theconcepts of women and gender. Yet, rather than being subsumed by thegender category, women are at the forefront of this scholarly rigorous,unabashedly feminist, and wonderfully engaging book.

The 12 chapter bookis targeted to undergraduate students and focuses on a variety of topicsroutinely found in psychology of women texts (e.g., history of feministpsychology, sex differences, gender socialization and development, gendercomparisons, sexism, relationships, work, physical and mental health; andviolence against women).Yet, there is nothing routine about Yoder'shandling of these topics.Favoring a bridge between personal experienceand systematic research that she calls "triangulated" (p. 18),Yoder adroitly combines contemporary research on women and gender with adiverse array of women's experiences.In the chapter entitled,"Socialization Practices: Learning to Be Ourselves in a GenderPolarized World," for example, Yoder reviews some of the most recentresearch on gender differences in media forums such as children'sstorybooks, television and the marketing of toys, and discusses her ownparental experiences and concerns.

To encourage readers to engageinteractively with the text, Yoder has included several quizzes andmini-exercises at the beginning and end of chapters. I very much likedthis innovation, and believe that this will prove ideal for personallyengaging students in the study of women and gender. Best of all, ratherthan providing a series of research findings on a topic, each chapter isorganized around clear and coherent themes.Among my favorite chapters was"Sexism: Sexist Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination" inwhich under the theme, sexist discrimination, Yoder presented currentresearch on how physical discrimination affects White and African Americanwomen with physical disabilities.A theme in the chapter on"Women's Physical Health and Well-Being: Understudied, Mythologized,but Changing,"focuses on the division of women's health intoreproductive and "general" health categories. As she doesthroughout the text, Yoder asks provocative questions.In the case of thewomen's health division, Yoder muses whether the disproportionate focus onbreast cancer research is because our society is obsessed with women'sbreasts or because the disease "is detected most frequently in aselect subset of privileged women"(p. 247).

In addition to makinga substantive scholarly contribution to feminist psychology, the book isimmensely readable. Compared to other psychology of women or psychologyof gender texts that my undergraduate students have pronounced, "toodry or too dense," Yoder's themes, presented research, analyses, andperspectives flow seamlessly.Much of this readability is due, no doubt,to Yoder's writing and editing process. In the preface, Yoder notes thatthe book was developed in conjunction with weekly critiques from 13 honorsstudents at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee who reviewed andcritiqued each chapter.Yoder recounts that the students said that theyoften read chapters in one sitting because the "story" flowed sowell.I wholeheartedly concur with the students' findings.

Yet anotherstrength of the book is its infusion of multicultural perspectives. Yoderdoes not subscribe to the notion of a generic woman, or man for thatmatter.Instead, research relevant to racial and ethnic minority womenand men, lesbians, people with physical disabilities, the elderly, workingclass people, and other multicultural populations are skillfully (andrefreshingly) interwoven with research and perspectives on the text'sthemes.Moreover, a selection of photos of people such as White women withprosthetic devices running a race; to an African American woman and man ingraduation regalia; and an Asian American woman doing office work with hernearby infant similarly illustrate the importance of multicultural views.

I immensely enjoyed this book, and wholeheartedly recommend itsinclusion in undergraduate Psychology of Women and Psychology of Gendercourses.This notwithstanding, I would have liked to see Yoder'sconceptualization of gender broadened to include transgendered people. Since the book also focuses on the larger category of gender, ourunderstanding of the psychology of gender could surely be expanded withperspectives and contemporary research that transcends the women-men genderdichotomy. Indeed, both the chapter on "Biological Essentialism: OurBodies, Ourselves?" and the chapter on "Socialization Practices:Learning to be Ourselves in a Gender-Polarized World' would have furtheredYoder's goal of transforming psychology with a focus on some of theresearch and complexities relevant to people who hormonally and surgicallyalter their sex, and those who transcend gender in cognition, behavior, andappearance.Moreover, although Yoder's emphasis on lesbians is quitegood, the experiences of bisexual women are virtually absent from the text. Although the index lists a section on bisexual identity development, Idid not find any research or information related to bisexual women on thereferred pages.

Nonetheless, the theme of transformation is central toYoder.In the first chapter,"Feminist Transformations ofPsychology: There's No Turning Back"Yoder describes Freud's infamouscase study of Dora to demonstrate " ...the role feminism has played ...in[irrevocably altering] the way we approach women and gender" (p.2). The final chapter, "Making A Difference: Transforming Ourselves,Our Relationships and Our Society" further echoes the transformationtheme, but now the focus is on individual transformation and socialjustice. Invoking Gloria Steinem's (1983) invitation to do"outrageous acts and everyday rebellions,"Yoder providesstudents with numerous examples for making a difference on behalf of women. In a refreshingly unconventional twist, Yoder gives the last word toChicana lesbian feminist poet, Cherrie Moraga (1983) through Moraga'spoignant poem, "The Welder." The final stanza of Moraga'spoem states: "I am the welder.I am taking the power into my ownhands." Indeed, by the end of Women and Gender: TransformingPsychology, students should leave the classroom inspired not only byfeminist psychology's transformation of our understanding of women andgender, but also of the power to transform the world beyond the classroom. ... Read more

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The authors first demonstrate that much of the existingresearch on sex and gender is not well-established, and then providereaders with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth ofresearch to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this isprovided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade authorand instructor team. ... Read more

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Slim book that all sex/gender researchers should read
The Caplans provide an informative account of biases that have existed for centuries in research on sex and gender, and of how these biases have been used to justify inequalities in power between men and women. Bias begins when researchers decide what topic to study (e.g., the "harmful" effects of menstruation on women's lives). Biases can then affect the way research is designed and conducted, and the interpretations of the results. The authors cite examples of the harmful consequences of biases in research such as the inaccurate and exaggerated beliefs we have about females inferiority in mathematical and spatial abilities, sex differences in aggression, and notions of PMS. This slim, informative book is worth reading...

Biased reviews from a social constructionist perspective
When it comes to sex differences, it appears still that there are two oppositional camps:some people are "for them" whileothers are "against them." The authors of this book clearly fall into thelatter category. They takethe perspective that there are no fundamental,evolved behavioral sexdifferences-- whatever differences do exist arepresumed to bedue to sexist socialization.There is very littlediscussion of modern adaptationism or nature-nurture interactionism here.While one might expect such a perspective from authors of a book of radicalfeminist or social constructionist essays,or perhaps from a book titledsomething like "The Case AgainstSex Differences," it isdisconcerting and surprising to see such an uneven analysis in a book thatsuggests it is about applying critical thinking skillsto evaluateresearch studies.

The book begins in Chapter 1 with the section headingstitled: "The Cycle of Bias" and "DangeriousAssumptions."The authors firstcast suspicion on the motives of sexdifferences researchers:"...there mustbe a reason that (somescientists) choose to spend their lives trying tofind sex and genderdifferences" (p. 8). And why might that reason be?The answer isfound in their rather sophomoric statement that "since most 'proof' of differences between groups is used to 'prove' that one group is betterthan the other, and scientists are aware of this, we need to ask whatmotivates them to pursue such research...Many(researchers)...seemto be intent on justifying the treatment of females as inferior..." (p. 8). Obviously, very few serious scientists use the word"proof" in either the formal publications or even in informalconversations.Fewer still arrive at value judgments that one sex isgenerally "inferior" to the other. Instead, virually all sexdifferences researchers, including the well known figures such as Kimuraand Benbow, supportequality of opportunity even in interest or skillareas where sex differences may indeed exist. This mischaracterization ofthe motives and values ofsex differences researcherscasts doubt aboutthe integrity of the rest of the book.

Indeed, the mischaracterizationscontinue in Chapter 2, "A BriefHistorical Perspective onSex-Difference Research." The authors uncritcally present Kramarae andTreichler's (1985) definition of sociobiology as"an adrocentricscience which persistently depicts males as the norm while defining femalesin relation to them, naming females as passive and inferior"(p. 18).Which sociobiologists?One is unlikely to find such perspectives in anymodern evolutionary theory and research.To the contrary, the recent booksby Sara Hrdy ("Mother Nature"), HelenFisher ("The FirstSex"), Linda Mealey ("Sex Differences") argue convincinglythat femalesactively and assertively look out for their own reproductiveinterests.

The authors state that "Sociobiologists often base theirtheories onthe assumption that existing human behavior patterns are goodthingsbecause they are the patterns that survived as humans have evolved,and therefore they must help to ensure the survival of the humanspecies." (p. 18).And, when commenting on research by Buss andothers thatsuggests that females preferentially mate with high status,resourcerich males, the Caplans state that "he (Buss) does notpresent persuasive evidence that the humanspecies would die out otherwise..." (p. 18).The Caplans are apparently unaware thatthe"for the good of the species" perspective withered in biology inthe 1960s and 1970s with the development of Hamilton's inclusive fitnesstheory, George's Williams' critique of group selection, and Richard Dawkins"selfish gene" theory.Further, most evolutionists do not committhe naturalistic fallacy by presuming that what is natural is good.TheCaplans are misinformed about sociobiology / evolutionarypsychology, andthey proceed to misinform their readers.

Only seven pages of the entire123 page book (pages 23 - 30) present a discussion of research design,threatsvalidity (although threats to internal and external validity arenot differentiated), and meta analysis.The remainingchaptersexaminesex difference research onspatial, verbal, and quantitative abilities,and sex differencesin aggression, masochism, dependency, and hormones. In each of these chapters, the authors reserve their critiques to studiesthat have found sex differences, particularly those in politicallysensitive areas.They omit a critical reviewof studies that report nosex differences.An informative discussion of the interaction ofbiological and social factorsis entirely missing.

Given the above, thisbook borders on being more of a political tractthan a informed study andcritique of research methods. Their misunderstanding of even the basicpostulates of modernevolutionary theories of sex differences is tiresome, if not inexcusable.

Michael E. Mills, Ph.D. Associate ProfessorPsychology Department Loyola Marymount University ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, published by SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6008 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 differences in sexuality and interpersonal power relations among french-speaking young adults from Quebec: a province-wide study.
Author: and others Joanne Otis
Publication: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Volume: 6Issue: 1Page: 17-28

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Sex and Gender (2nd edt.) is a substantially revised edition of a classic text. Adopting a balanced approach to the often controversial study of sex differences, the authors introduce the reader to the fundamental questions relating to sex and gender in an accessible way. Drawing on the latest research, new developments are explored such as the rise of evolutionary psychology and the influence of Social Role Theory as well as new psychoanalytic and ethno-methodological approaches which have all contributed to a greater understanding of the complex nature of masculinity and femininity.Download Description
Sex and Gender 2nd edition is a substantially revised edition of a classic text. Adopting a balanced and straightforward approach to the often controversial study of sex differences, the authors aim to introduce the reader to the fundamental questions relating to sex and gender in an accessible way at the same time as drawing on the very latest research in this and related areas. New developments which are explored in this edition include the rise of evolutionary psychology and the influence of Social Role Theory as well as new psychoanalytic and ethno-methodological approaches which have all contributed to a greater understanding of the complex nature of masculinity and femininity. ... Read more

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In Gendering Bodies, Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction. This book is an accessible, yet comprehensive, theory of a sociology of the gendered body. ... Read more

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"A wonderfully diverse array of classic and contemporary readings"
—Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books

In The Gender and Psychology Reader, Blythe McVicker Clinchy and Julie K. Norem have culled through a diverse group ofreadings to provide a wide-ranging exploration of both progress made and problems encountered as psychologists grapple with gender. The volume includes both classic and contemporary readings, drawn from all branches of psychology-- social, developmental, personality, cognitive, history, physiological/biological--as well as from other disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and anthropology.

The essays cover a gamut of subjects including epistemological issues, the study of difference, the embodiment of gender, autonomy and connection in relationships, and clinical implications. A concluding chapter by the editors considers themes that can be traced through the different sections, gaps in current perspectives, and future directions.

The Gender and Psychology Reader includes contributions from an array of distinguished scholars from varying methodological and disciplinary backgrounds. Among the contributors are Laurel Furumoto, Jeanne Marecek, Laura S. Brown, Anne Fausto- Sterling, Sandra Lipsitz Bem, Michelle Fine, Jospeh H. Pleck, J. G. Morawski, Daniel A. Hart, Barrie Thorne, and Aida Hurtado. Organized for easy use as either a primary or supplementary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, The Gender and Psychology Reader will also serve as the essential reference for those in clinical practice interested in gender issues.

ISBN: 0-8147-1547-8 / $29.50s paperISBN: 0-8147-1546-X / $75.00s cloth ... Read more

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Contains writings by60 authors
This co-edited collection contains 41 chapters written by 60 authors. My personal favorites are #14, the hard to find "Raising Darwin's Consciousness" by Sarah Hrdy and #3, the previously unpublished "Doing Personality Research: How Can Feminist Theories Help?" by Abigail Stewart. The co-editors did a nice job of creating a valuable and informative collection that is also well organized with useful editors' commentaries.

Intelligent Psychological Perspectives Collected Here
The co-editors of this intelligent Reader are to be commended for their perceptive selections and editorial introductions and conclusion. Many carefully selected and arranged readings are included. Co-editor Blythe Clinchy is a co-author of the classic book "Women's Ways of Knowing" and co-editor Julie Norem has recently published a book about constructive pessimism, "The Positive Power of Negative Thinking." All of this is high quality psychology that suggests the field does have a future in the 21st century.

A comprehensive neo-Piagetian, post-Freudian tome
Gender is approached from a semiotic sensibilty decoding alluring culturaliconography. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, published by SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 7134 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.

From the supplier: A study of 2,060 French-speaking college students in Quebec examined gender differences in sociosexual scripts and power relations. Results suggest a transitional period in which new patterns of relationship are being explored. Reduced gender differences in personality traits indicate that socialization has become more androgynous. Women report more sexual partners and longer-lasting love relationships than men. In communication styles, women tend to favor negotiation, whereas men choose withdrawal. Overall gender equality appears to lag behind sexual equality. Sexual self-efficacy, erotic initiatives, contraception and AIDS prevention are also discussed.

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Title: Gender differences in sexuality and interpersonal power relations among French-speaking young adults from Quebec: a province-wide study.
Author: Joanne Otis
Publication: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Volume: v6Issue: n1Page: p17(12)

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This work explores, through case studies and critical analyses, how media depictions affect the social construction of gender, sexuality, and identity. Through a combination of historical and contemporary topics, scholars examine the stereotypical portrayal of women and men and the contexts within which these stereotypes are illustrated. The studies also discuss the sociopolitical implications of symbols and images associated with these gender representations. Concrete references to particular media support both the methodological and theoretical approaches of the different essays. These quantitative and qualitative studies expose the myriad ways in which the media intervenes in our perception of popular culture. Media and mass communication scholars will appreciate the many different media forms these essays encompass. The multicultural and gendered perspectives that comprise these writings will also appeal to students and educators of gender studies and contemporary rhetoric. Chapters are grouped in subsections that include newspaper, visual image in media, magazine, television, video, film, and cyberspace. ... Read more

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Great contents, bad editing
This book has brought together essays written by numerous scholars who are widely known as excellent scholars and/or are the leading experts on their subjects, including Linda K. Fuller, Paul Martin Lester, Kathy B. McKee, Debra Merskin, Carol Pardun and Joseph W. Slade--in addition to mostly competent lesser lights. It's only a pity that the book's editing is so uneven in every way--grammar, spelling, typos, word choice, style, punctuation, organization and flow, etc., etc.--especially since Carstarphen supposedly is a former magazine editor. ... Read more

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Explaining theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner, Gender and Social Psychology critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to the study of gender, examining key issues such as family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effects of media representation of the sexes.Download Description
This book explains theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner and critically evaluates the effect that psychology has made to the study of gender examining key issues such as parenting and inequalities in education. ... Read more