Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

Lloyd, Barbara B. (Barbara Bloom), 1933-

Description

ix, 355 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Sex differences (Psychology)
• Sex differences
• Sex role
• Gender identity
• Identification (Psychology)
• Gender Identity
• Identification, Psychological
• Sex Characteristics
• Gender Role
• sex role
• Gender identity
• Sex differences
• Sex role
• Sekseverschillen
• Psychosociale aspecten
• Antropologische aspecten
• Gender roles

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