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The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together - Couverture rigide

Maccoby, Eleanor E.

 
9780674914810: The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0674914813 ISBN 13 : 9780674914810
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male and female mean? In this book, the author explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods in their lives. Chief among her contentions is that gender differences appear primarily in group, or social, contexts. In childhood, boys and girls tend to gravitate towards others of their own sex. The text examines why this segregation occurs and how boys' groups and girls groups develop distinct cultures with different agendas. A complex combination of biological, cognitive, and social factors that contribute to gender segregation and group differentiation are identified. A major finding is that these childhood experiences in same-sex groups profoundly influence how members of the two sexes relate to one another in adulthood - as lovers, co-workers and parents. The author shows how in constructing these adult relationships, men and women utilize old elements from their childhood experiences as well as new ones arising from different adult agendas. Finally, she considers social changes in gender roles in light of her discoveries about the constraints and opportunities implicit in the same-sex and cross-sex relationships of childhood.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674914813
ISBN 13 
9780674914810
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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