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Same difference : how gender myths are hurting our relationships, our children, and our jobs / by Barnett, Rosalind C.; Rivers, Caryl.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index.The seduction of difference -- The caring trap -- That old black magic -- The mating game -- Talking about power -- Man (and woman) the hunter -- Do the math -- Leading questions -- As the twig is bent -- The self-esteem swan dive -- The road ahead.Publisher's description: From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. Generations have bought into the idea that women are uniquely primed to be "relational," men innately driven toward achievement-even when these "truths" are contradicted by what's happening in our daily lives. The time has come, argue the authors of this groundbreaking book, to liberate ourselves from biological determinism. Drawing on years of exhaustive research, Barnett and Rivers reveal how a toxic mix of junk science, pop psychology, and media hype has profoundly influenced our thinking and behavior, causing us to make poor decisions about how we choose our mates, raise our children, and manage our careers. It is power, not gender, that makes a difference; in fact, there are more differences among women (or men) with varying degrees of power than there are between women and men. In this vitally important and life-changing book, Barnett and Rivers sound a clarion call: a plea to end sexual stereotyping so that women and men, girls and boys, may realize their destinies as full human beings. Same Difference takes on the myths of "Mars and Venus": Myth...Men are genetically driven to seek out beautiful women. This may have been true in the stone age, but times change. Now, a significant number of men report that an attractive portfolio is even more alluring than a pretty face. Myth...Women want to marry wealthy men who can protect them and their children. In fact, a surprising majority of today's women put a higher price tag on empathy and nurturance. Myth...Girls face an inevitable plunge in self-esteem at adolescence. Recent research finds no evidence of this. Yet parents, teachers, and girls themselves lower their expectations and balk at challenges, because of this pervasive belief. Myth...Boys and girls learn differently. Teaching styles that emphasize different tactics for boys and girls are more often rooted in stereotypes than research or hard science, and can lead to a poorer-quality education for girls. Still, public funds are squandered on special curricula aimed at "female learning styles." Myth...Men and women speak "different languages"-they "Just Don't Understand" each other. Wrong. Women talk "male" in the boardroom, and men easily master "motherese." Myth...Female leadership is kinder and gentler. Not so. Position is the key to behavior: female managers are not more democratic than males, though many of us might like to think so.
Subjects: Sex differences (Psychology); Sex role.;
© c2004., Basic Books,
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The male brain / by Brizendine, Louann,1952-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-261) and index.What makes a man -- The boy brain -- The teen boy brain -- The mating brain: love and lust -- The brain below the belt -- The daddy brain -- Manhood: the emotional lives of men -- The mature male brain -- The future of the male brain -- The male brain and sexual orientation.Details how the male brain, specifically how it experiences life's phases and perceives reality, is fundamentally different from the female brain.
Subjects: Neuroendocrinology.; Brain; Men;
© 2010., Three Rivers Press,
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She-Q : why women should mentor men and change the world / by Takei, Michele.;
"This book takes readers on a fascinating intellectual journey that showcases SHE-Q as the next great emerging intelligence--a force that can remake the world."--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.A band-aid equality -- A world out of balance -- How did we get here? -- Women know and do not know -- Women are more rational -- Women are more moral -- Women are the more creative sex -- The real reason relationships fail -- Male relational dread -- Confessions of a male chauvinist pig -- Learning how to be a man -- Why men are clueless in relationships -- Her advanced knowing matches new perspectives -- She-Q, the wisdom of women -- Mentoring the masculine -- The new hero -- A balanced future.
Subjects: Sex differences (Psychology); Women; Sex role.; Feminism.;
© 2012., Praeger,
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The tending instinct : how nurturing is essential for who we are and how we live / by Taylor, Shelley E.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-280) and index.Taylor examines stress, relationships, and human society through the special lens of women's biology. She draws on genetics, evolutionary psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to show how this tending process begins virtually at the moment of conception and literally crafts the biology of offspring through genes that rely on caregiving for their expression. Taylor also examines what drives women to seek each other's company, and to tend to the young and the infirm -- acts that greatly benefit the group but often at great cost to the individual.
Subjects: Sociobiology.; Sex differences.; Nurturing behavior.; Stress (Psychology);
© 2002., Times Books,
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Why men die first how to lengthen your lifespan. by Legato, Marianne J.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Men; Health; Sex factors in disease.; Longevity.;
© 2008., PALGRAVE MACMILLAN,
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Why beautiful people have more daughters : from dating, shopping, and praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire ; two evolutionary psychologists explain why we do what we do ; [includes a new afterword] / by Miller, Alan S.; Kanazawa, Satoshi.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-239) and index.
Subjects: Beauty, Personal; Evolutionary psychology.; Sex differences (Psychology); Beauty, Personal Psychological aspects; Evolutionary psychology; Sex differences (Psychology);
© 2008., Perigee Book,
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The war of the sexes : how conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from prehistory to the present / by Seabright, Paul.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Sex and salesmanship -- Seduction and the emotions -- Social primates -- Testing for talent -- What do women want? -- Coalitions of the willing -- The scarcity of charm -- The tender war.As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed by the modern information economy. Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.
Subjects: Sex (Psychology); Sex differences (Psychology); Interpersonal relations.; Men; Women;
© c2012., Princeton University Press,
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Odd couples : extraordinary differences between the sexes in the animal kingdom / by Fairbairn, Daphne J.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-285) and index.The roots of sexual differences : why male and female animals differ -- Elephant seals : harems, hierarchies, and giant males -- Great bustards : gorgeous males and choosy females -- Shell-carrying cichlids : protective males and furtive females -- Yellow garden spiders : sedentary females and roving males -- Blanket octopuses : drifting females and dwarf males -- Giant seadevils : fearsome females and parasitic males -- Bone-eating worms : female tubeworms with harems of minuscule males -- Shell-burrowing barnacles : sac-like females with harems of phallic males -- The diversity of sexual differences : differences between males and females across the animal kingdom."Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and evolution, Odd Couples explores some of the most extraordinary sexual differences in the animal world. From the fields of Spain to the deep oceans, evolutionary biologist Daphne Fairbairn uncovers the unique and bizarre characteristics--in size, behavior, ecology, and life history--that exist in these remarkable species and the special strategies they use to maximize reproductive success."--
Subjects: Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sexual behavior in animals.; Sex differences.;
© [2013]., Princeton University Press,
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The female offender : girls, women, and crime. by Chesney-Lind, Meda.; Pasko, Lisa.(NL-LeOCL)285495224;
Met lit.opg. en index.Introduction -- Girls' Troubles and "Female Delinquency" -- Girls, Gangs, and Violence -- The Juvenile Justice Systems and Girls -- Trends in Women's Crime -- Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice -- Female Offenders, Community Supervision, and Evidence-Based Practices -- ConclusionScholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female, and the population of women in prison has tripled in the past decade. Co-authored by one of the pioneers in the development of the feminist theoretical perspective in criminology, this work redresses these issues. The authors explore gender and cultural factors in women's lives that often precede criminal behavior and address the question of whether female offenders are more violent today than in the past. The authors provide a revealing look at how public discomfort with the idea of women as criminals significantly impacts the treatment received by this offender population. The text covers additional topics such the interaction of sexism, racism, and social class inequalities that results in an increase of female offenders, as well as the imprisonment binge that has resulted in an increasing number of girls and women being incarcerated.
Subjects: Female offenders.; Violence in women.; Criminal behavior;
© 2013., SAGE,
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Shortchanged : why women have less wealth and what can be done about it / by Chang, Mariko Lin.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This book focuses on the differences in wealth between women and men. It is an examination of why women struggle to accumulate assets, who has what, and why it matters. Women now receive more college degrees than men, and enter the workforce with better job opportunities than ever before. Indeed, the wage gap between men and women has never been smaller. So why does the typical woman have only 36 cents for every dollar of wealth owned by the typical man? How is it that never-married women working full-time have only 16 per cent as much wealth as similarly situated men? And why do single mothers have only 8 per cent of the wealth of single fathers? The author draws on the most comprehensive national data on wealth and on in-depth interviews to show how differences in earnings, in saving and investing, and, most important, the demands of care-giving all contribute to the gender-wealth gap. She argues that the current focus on equal pay and family-friendly workplace policies, although important, will not ultimately change or eliminate wealth inequalities. What she calls the "wealth escalator", comprised of fringe benefits, the tax code, and government benefits, and the "debt anchor" must be the targets of policies aimed at strengthening women's financial resources. She proposes a number of practical suggestions to address the unequal burdens and consequences of care-giving, so that women who work just as hard as men will not be left standing in financial quicksand. This is a comprehensive portrait of where women and men stand with respect to wealth; it not only sheds light on why women lack wealth, but also offers solutions for improving the financial situation of women, men, and families.
Subjects: Women; Wealth; Wages; Women;
© 2012., Oxford University Press,
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