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Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference / edited by Deborah L. Rhode.

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Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference / edited by Deborah L. Rhode.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990.

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  • Rhode, Deborah L.
  • Stanford University. Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Description
xi, 315 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Essays cover historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological approaches, ethics and politics, and the policy implications of the real and perceived differences between the sexes.
Subject
  • Feminist theory
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Sex differences
  • Sex role
Note
  • Outgrowth of a conference sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender in 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-304) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Feminism and sexual difference in historical perspective / Karen Offen -- Feminist postmodernism / Regenia Gagnier -- Darwinians confront gender / Carl N. Degler -- Global versus local perspectives on sexual difference / John Dupré -- The political nature of "human nature" / Ruth Hubbard -- Perspectives on sociobiology, feminism and the law / Herma Hill Kay -- A social-psychological model of gender / Kay Deaux and Brenda Major -- Children and gender / Barrie Thorne -- What is the relation between psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women? / Nancy J. Chodorow -- The mode of reproduction in anthropology / Sylvia J. Yanagisako and Jane F. Collier -- Thinking like a woman / Susan Moller Okin -- Ethics from the standpoint of women / Nel Noddings -- The possibility of feminist theory / Marilyn Frye -- Feminism / Bell Hooks -- Definitions of difference / Deborah L. Rhode -- Legal perspectives on sexual difference / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Gender difference and beyond / Julianne Malveaux -- Sexual difference and sexual equality / Alison M. Jaggar.
ISBN
0300044275 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^89025083^
OCLC
20693803
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library