Research Catalog
Sex and gender
- Title
- Sex and gender / John Archer, Barbara Lloyd.
- Author
- Archer, John, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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Text | Use in library | BF692.2 .A72 1985 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lloyd, Barbara B. (Barbara Bloom), 1933-
- Description
- ix, 355 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Note
- "First published 1982 by Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England"--T.p. verso.
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 300-330.
- Contents
- Commonsense views and psychological research. Commonsense influences on psychological research. Research strategies. Sex or gender? -- Men and women: three views from the social sciences. The demographic approach: Mr. and Ms. Average. The psychometric approach: what psychologists measure. The social psychological study of stereotypes: commonsense beliefs -- Physical sex differences: evolution, development, and cultural significance. Evolution: where did sex begin? Evolution of sex differences in animals. Evolution of human sex differences. The development of physical sex differences. The social meaning of physical sex differences. -- Sexuality: psychobiology, psychoanalysis, and sociology. The physiological measurement of sexual behavior. Psychoanalytic explanations of sexuality. Social uses of sexuality -- Aggression, violence and power. Are men really more aggressive than women? Explaining gender differences in aggression. Power -- Fear, anxiety and mental health. Are woman more fearful and anxious than men? Are women moodier than men? Are there gender differences in mental health? -- The family. Marriage and the family. Mothering and attachment. Fathers and mothers. -- Work, intelligence and achievement. Do men get better jobs and earn more money than women? Gender differences in intellectual abilities. Gender stereotypes and work. Opportunity and training. Aspirations and achievement motivation -- Growing up male or female. The nature-nurture issue. Socialization accounts. The cognitive developmental approach: an interactionist theory. Nature, nurture, and models of development. Gender and developmental pathways -- Social change and the future. Gender and social change. The gender view: intergroup relations and social change.
- ISBN
- 0521264979
- 9780521264976
- 0521319218
- 9780521319218
- LCCN
- 84020038
- OCLC
- ocm11186061
- 11186061
- SCSB-9523897
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library