Women, men & gender : ongoing debates /
In this timely book, experts from a wide range of disciplines take opposing views on such important gender controversies as learning and knowing, conversational style, partner violence, sexuality, leadership styles, and pornography. Mary Roth Walsh follows the format she established in her highly ac...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Question 1. Research Priorities: Should We Continue to Study Gender Differences? No: Cataloging Gender Differences: Science or Politics? / Bernice Lott. Yes: Comparing Women and Men: Methods, Findings, and Politics / Alice H. Eagly
- Question 2. Biological Causation: Are Gender Differences Wired into Our Biology? Yes: Sex Differences Emerge during the First Year of Life / June M. Reinisch, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Donald B. Rubin and M. Fini Schulsinger. No: Biology Does Not Create Gender Differences in Personality / Linda L. Carli
- Question 3. Diversity Issues: Are Race, Class, and Gender of Comparable Importance in Producing Inequality? Yes: Doing Difference / Candace West and Sarah Fenstermaker. No: On West and Fenstermaker's 'Doing Difference' / Patricia Hill Collins
- Question 4. Conversational Style: Do Women and Men Speak Different Languages? Yes: Women and Men Talking: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach / Deborah Tannen.
