Gender, emotion, and the family
By: Leslie Brody
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780674005518
Subjects: Émotions; Différences entre sexes; Family; Communication interpersonnelle; Emotions; Différences entre sexes (Psychologie); Sex differences (Psychology); Stéréotypes; Sex differences; Famille
Description: Do women express their feelings more than men? Popular stereotypes say they do, but in this provocative book, Leslie Brody breaks with conventional wisdom. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression. Brody shows that whether and how men and women express their feelings varies widely from situation to situation and from culture to culture, and depends on a number of particular characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural background, power and status.
Notes: Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The nature and extent of gender differences : Understanding emotional expression ; Words, faces, voices, and behaviors ; Physiological arousal and patterns of emotional expression ; Sad or mad? The quality of emotions; title: II. Gender, biology, and the family : The state of the art: biological differences? ; Transactional relationships within families ; Gender identification and de-identification in the family ; Fathers and the family climate; title: III. Cultural origins and consequences of gender differences : Social motives, power, and roles ; Stereotypes and display rules ; The power of peers ; The health consequences of gender-stereotypic emotional expression ; Rethinking gender and emotion.