Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Gender, Nature, and Nurture, 2nd Edition




Gender, Nature, and Nurture by Richard A. Lippa


2005 | ISBN: 0805853448, 0805853456 | English | 312 pages | EPUB | 3 MB




This engaging text presents the latest scientific findings on gender differences, similarities, and variations–in sexuality, cognitive abilities, occupational preferences, personality, and social behaviors. The impact of nature and nurture on gender is examined from the perspectives of genetics, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, neuroanatomy, sociology, and psychology. The result is a balanced, fair-minded synthesis of diverse points of view. Dr. Lippa"s text sympathetically summarizes each side of the nature-nurture debate, and in a witty imagined conversation between a personified "nature" and "nurture," he identifies weaknesses in the arguments offered by both sides. His review defines gender, summarizes research on gender differences, examines the nature of masculinity and femininity, describes theories of gender, and presents a "cascade model," which argues that nature and nurture weave together to form the complex tapestry known as gender.




Gender, Nature, and Nurture, Second Edition features:


*new research on sex differences in personality, moral thought, coping styles, sexual and antisocial behavior, and psychological adjustment;


*the results of a new meta-analysis of sex differences in real-life measures of aggression;


*new sections on non-hormonal direct genetic effects on sexual differentiation; hormones and maternal behavior; and on gender, work, and pay; and


*expanded accounts of sex differences in children"s play and activity levels; social learning theories of gender, and social constructionist views of gender.




This lively "primer" is an ideal book for courses on gender studies, the psychology of women, or of men, and gender roles. Its wealth of updated information will stimulate the professional reader, and its accessible style will captivate the student and general reader.








Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border




Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Inter-America Series) by Pablo Vila


English | 1 Aug. 2005 | ISBN: 0292705832, 0292702914 | 314 Pages | PDF | 2 MB




From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture – neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both – has arisen in the borderlands.