Sex and Gender

• Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Commonsense beliefs and psychological research strategies -- Commonsense beliefs -- Commonsense influences on psychological research -- Scientific research and commonsense beliefs -- Similarities and differences -- The nature of explanations -- Research strategies -- Nomothetic versus ideographic approaches -- Levels of explanation -- Sex or gender? -- Further reading -- 2 Stereotypes, attitudes, and personal attributes -- Introduction -- The content of gender stereotypes -- Stereotypes and roles -- Do stereotypes reffect prejudice or reality? -- Attitudes towards women and men -- Individual differences in stereotypic traits -- Gender schema -- Masculinity and femininity -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 3 Origins -- Introduction -- The origins of sexual reproduction -- Why two sexes? -- Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection -- The sexual natures of men and women -- Sexual selection and psychological sex differences -- The hunter-gatherer way of life -- Gender roles -- The origin of patriarchy -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 4 Developmental influences -- Introduction -- Socialisation: the information potentially transmitted to boys and girls -- Routes of cultural transmission -- Parents' responses to infants -- Parents' treatment of boys and girls -- The social environment outside the family -- Socialisation: transmission through social learning -- Imitation of role models -- The learning of gender-appropriate behaviour -- Socialisation: acquisition through cognitive processes -- Gender identity -- Gender constancy and stability -- Cues for identifying sex -- Socialisation from a cognitive developmental perspective -- Does biological development influence behaviour? -- General issues -- The role of sexhormones in development.
• Rough-and-tumble play -- Activity levels -- A biosocial approach to gender development -- Sex-segregation in childhood -- Sex-segregated groups as the context for socialisation influences -- The boundaries of childhood gender roles -- Conclusions: why socialisation and biology are not independent of one another -- Further reading -- 5 Sexuality: psychophysiology, psychoanalysis, and social construction -- Introduction -- The physiological measurement of sexual behaviour -- The human orgasm -- Sources of sexual satisfaction -- Recording and reporting physiological arousal -- Questionnaire reports of sexual experience -- Psychoanalytic explanations of sexuality -- The unconscious -- Psychosexual development -- The social construction of sexuality -- In the beginning there was man -- From two to many -- The xanith of Oman: a third gender role? -- Native North American genders -- Beyond two gender roles -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 6 Aggression, violence, and power -- Introduction -- Aggression and violence between members of the same sex -- Are men really more aggressive than women? -- Which men are likely to be violent? -- Women's aggression -- Why is there a sex difference in same-sex violence? -- Masculine values and their evolutionary underpinning -- The proximate cause of male aggression and violence: is testosterone involved? -- Socialisation explanations of men's aggression -- Women's aggression from an evolutionary perspective -- Violence in heterosexual relationships -- Sexual aggression -- Power, aggression, and violence -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 7 Fear, anxiety, and mental health -- Introduction -- Do women experience more negative emotions? -- Do women's emotions fluctuate more than those of men? -- Are there sex differences in mental health? -- Diagnosing mental disorders -- Sex differences in specific disorders.
• Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Eating disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Personality disorders -- How are sex differences explained? -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 8 The domestic sphere -- Introduction -- The family and marriage -- The changing family -- Women and marriage -- The family in history -- Mothering and attachment -- Attachment theory -- Gender-related issues in the development of attachment bonds: caregivers -- Gender issues in the development of attachment bonds: infants and children -- Developmental hazards -- Attachment and social development -- Fathers and mothers -- One-parent families -- Mothers' reports of fathers' caregiving -- Personality differences among fathers -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 9 Work, education, and occupational achievement -- Introduction -- Do men get better jobs and earn more money than women? -- Are there more men with high intellectual ability? -- Specific cognitive abilities -- Gender stereotypes in occupations and training -- Male chauvinism or masculine chauvinism? -- Does sex bias operate in occupational decisions? -- Self-stereotyping -- Social dominance orientation -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- 10 Looking back and looking ahead -- Introduction -- The limitations of existing meta-analyses -- Age-range -- National and cultural representation -- Historical context -- Major theoretical developments -- Beyond sex differences -- Postscript -- Further reading -- References -- Index.

• A fully revised edition of classic text, accessible introduction to fundamental questions concerning sex and gender. 

Ämnesord

Sex differences (Psychology)  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

155.33 (DDC)

Dogb (kssb/8 (machine generated))