Women, men & gender : ongoing debates

Summary: In this timely book, experts from a wide range of disciplines take opposing views on such important gender controversies as learning and knowing, conversational style, partner violence, sexuality, leadership styles, and pornography. Mary Roth Walsh follows the format she established in her highly acclaimed book The Psychology of Women, presenting new issues and perspectives on subjects sure to intrigue all students of gender studies.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300069389
ISBN: 9780300068962
ISBN: 0300069383
ISBN: 0300068964
ISBN: 9780300146486
ISBN: 0300146485
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 445 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
Copyright: �1997

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Question 1. Research Priorities: Should We Continue to Study Gender Differences? No: Cataloging Gender Differences: Science or Politics? / Bernice Lott. Yes: Comparing Women and Men: Methods, Findings, and Politics / Alice H. Eagly -- Question 2. Biological Causation: Are Gender Differences Wired into Our Biology? Yes: Sex Differences Emerge during the First Year of Life / June M. Reinisch, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Donald B. Rubin and M. Fini Schulsinger. No: Biology Does Not Create Gender Differences in Personality / Linda L. Carli -- Question 3. Diversity Issues: Are Race, Class, and Gender of Comparable Importance in Producing Inequality? Yes: Doing Difference / Candace West and Sarah Fenstermaker. No: On West and Fenstermaker's 'Doing Difference' / Patricia Hill Collins -- Question 4. Conversational Style: Do Women and Men Speak Different Languages? Yes: Women and Men Talking: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach / Deborah Tannen.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.