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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard A Lippa |
| ISBN: | 0805836055 9780805836059 0805836063 9780805836066 |
| OCLC Number: | 47018457 |
| Description: | xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 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? -- Beyond meta-analyses: other possible sex differences -- Masculinity and femininity: gender within gender -- The search commences: Terman and Mile's early work at Stanford -- Masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions -- But don't masculinity and femininity make sense to most of us? -- Deconstructing and reconstructing masculinity-femininity -- Summary -- Ch. 3: Theories of gender -- Levels of explanation applied to gender -- Biological theories -- From nature to nurture -- Summary -- Ch. 4: The case for nature -- Animal experiments -- Humans with unusual early exposure to sex hormones -- Correlational studies of hormones and behavior in humans -- "Natural experiments" and sex reassignment -- Biology and human sex differences -- The case for biological influences -- Demonstrating biological influences on individual differences in masculinity and femininity: behavior genetic studies -- Summary -- Ch. 5: The case for nurture -- Learning to "do gender" -- Self-socialization of gender -- Consequences of gender stereotypes --Broader social factors: social roles and status differences -- Coda -- Summary -- Ch. 6: Cross-examinations -- "Nature" and "nurture" debate the evidence presented in Chapters 4 and 5 -- Summary -- Ch. 7: Gender, nature, and nurture: looking to the future -- Causal cascades and causal thickets -- Gender, nature, and nurture: some real-life concerns -- Coda -- Summary. |
| Responsibility: | Richard A. Lippa. |
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