Women, Men, and Gender

Richard B. Hays

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1996
• ISBN:
  9780300146486
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Gender controversies - about knowing and learning, conversational style, partner violence, sexuality, leadership styles, and pornography - provoke heated discussion. Now Mary Roth Walsh explores eighteen current controversies, presenting two opposing views on each subject, all from recognized experts representing psychology, psychiatry, sociolinguistics, education, sociology, law, and management science. Walsh provides an introductory essay, individual introductions to each topic, and more than 1800 bibliographical citations.

The format of this book is based on Walsh's Psychology of Women: Ongoing Debates, which was published in 1987 to great acclaim. Women, Men, and Gender presents new issues and up-to-date articles that are of relevance to the general reader and today's students of gender studies.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PUBLICATION INFORMATION
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Introduction
• PART I: Fundamental Questions
• QUESTION 1. Research Priorities: Should We Continue to Study Gender Differences?
• QUESTION 2. Biological Causation: Are Gender Differences Wired into Our Biology?
• QUESTION 3: Diversity Issues: Are Race, Class, and Gender of Comparable Importance in Producing Inequality?
• PART II: Power and Influence Strategies
• QUESTION 4: Conversational Style: Do Women and Men Speak Different Languages?
• QUESTION 5: Nonverbal Behavior: Are Women's Superior Skills Caused by Their Oppression?
• QUESTION 6: Negotiation Strategies: Do Women and Men Have Different Styles?
• PART IIII: Sexuality
• QUESTION 7: Pornography: Is It Harmful to Women?
• QUESTION 8: Sexual Orientation: Is It Determined by Biology?
• PART IV: Violence
• QUESTION 9: Domestic Violence: Are Women as Likely as Men to Initiate Physical Assaults in Partner Relationships?
• QUESTION 10: Rape: Are Rape Statistics Exaggerated?
• PART V: Knowing and Learning
• QUESTION 11. Ways of Knowing: Do Women and Men Have Different Ways of Knowing?
• QUESTION 12. Mathematics: Is Biology the Cause of Gender Differences in Performance?
• PART VI: The Workplace
• QUESTION 13. Leadership: Do Women and Men Have Different Ways of Leading?
• QUESTION 14. Discrimination: Is Sex Stereotyping the Cause of Workplace Discrimination?
• PART VII: Psychotherapy
• QUESTION 15. Diagnosis: Is There Gender Bias in the 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV)?
• QUESTION 16. Relational Therapy: Is the Stone Center's Relational Theory a Source of Empowerment for Women?
• PART VIII: Social Change
• QUESTION 17. Women's Behavior: Do Mothers Harm Their Children When They Work Outside the Home?
• QUESTION 18. Men's Behavior: Is the Mythopoetic Men's Movement Creating New Obstacles for Women?
• Index
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