Taking sides
Subtitle: Clashing views in gender
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Jacquelyn W. White
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780073515298
Subjects: Debates and debating; Sex preselection; Gay parents; Sex role; Female circumcision; Sex discrimination; Equal pay for equal work; Sex differences; Gender identity
Other titles: Clashing views in gender; Gender
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. DEFINITIONS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES: A MOVING TARGET; title: Is anatomy destiny?; title: Is gender identity innate?; title: Do sex differences in careers in mathematics and sciences have a biological basis?; title: Unit 2. DIFFERENT STROKES: THE QUESTION OF DIFFERENCE; title: Are women and men more similar than different?; title: Are different patterns of communication in women and men innately determined?; title: Are the fight-or-flight and tend-and-befriend responses to stress gender-based?; title: Unit 3. VIOLENCE IN THE DAILY LIVES OF WOMEN AND MEN; title: Are expressions of aggression related to gender?; title: Gender symmetry: do women and men commit equal levels of violence against intimate partners?; title: Does pornography reduce the incidence of rape?; title: Unit 4. FROM OZZIE AND HARRIET TO MY TWO DADS: GENDER IN CHILDHOOD; title: Should same-sex couples be able to marry?; title: Can lesbian and gay couples be appropriate parents for children?; title: Are fathers essential for children's well-being?; title: Is fetal sex selection harmful to society?; title: Unit 5. FROM 9 TO 5: GENDER IN THE WORLD OF WORK; title: Does the "Mommy Track" (part-time work) improve women's lives?; title: Can social policies improve gender inequalities in the workplace?; title: Is the gender wage gap justified?; title: Are barriers to women's success as leaders due to societal obstacles?; title: Unit 6. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: DOUBLE STANDARDS?; title: Is female circumcision universally wrong?; title: Should "Abstinence-Until-Marriage" be the only message to teens?; title: Can women's sexuality be free from traditional gender constraints?