Women, Men, and Gender; Ongoing Debates

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ISBN: 9780300069389 | 0300069383
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Copyright: 8/28/1996

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Mary Roth Walsh explores eighteen current controversies, presenting two opposing views on each subject, all from recognized experts representing psychiatry, sociolinguistics, education, sociology, law, and management science. Walsh provides an introductory essay, individual introductions to each topic, and more than 1,800 bibliographical citations.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Publication Information
List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Research Priorities: Should We Continue to Study Gender Differences?	p. 15
No: Cataloging Gender Differences: Science or Politics?	p. 19
Yes: Comparing Women and Men: Methods, Findings, and Politics	p. 24
Biological Causation: Are Gender Differences Wired into Our Biology?	p. 33
Yes: Sex Differences Emerge during the First Year of Life	p. 37
No: Biology Does Not Create Gender Differences in Personality	p. 44
Diversity Issues: Are Race, Class, and Gender of Comparable Importance in Producing Inequality?	p. 55
Yes: Doing Difference	p. 58
No: On West and Fenstermaker's 'Doing Difference'	p. 73
Conversational Style: Do Women and Men Speak Different Languages?	p. 79
Yes: Women and Men Talking: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach	p. 82
No: Women and Men Talking: Are They Worlds Apart?	p. 91
Nonverbal Behavior: Are Women's Superior Skills Caused by Their Oppression?	p. 101
Yes: On Oppressing Hypotheses: Or, Differences in Nonverbal Sensitivity Revisited	p. 104
No: "Subordination and Nonverbal Sensitivity: A Hypothesis in Search of Support	p. 120
Negotiation Strategies: Do Women and Men Have Different Styles?	p. 135
Yes: Her Place at the Table: Gender and Negotiation	p. 138
No: Gender versus Power as a Predictor of Negotiation Behavior and Outcomes	p. 145
Pornography: Is It Harmful to Women?	p. 155
Yes: Pornography Causes Harm to Women	p. 158
No: Why Censoring Pornography Would Not Reduce Discrimination or Violence against Women	p. 170
Sexual Orientation: Is It Determined by Biology?	p. 181
Yes: The Innateness of Homosexuality	p. 184
No: Transitions from Heterosexuality to Lesbianism: The Discursive Production of Lesbian Identities	p. 188
Domestic Violence: Are Women as Likely as Men to Initiate Physical Assaults in Partner Relationships?	p. 207
Yes: Physical Assaults by Women Partners: A Major Social Problem	p. 210
No: Physical Assaults by Male Partners: A Major Social Problem	p. 222
Rape: Are Rape Statistics Exaggerated?	p. 233
Yes: Advocacy Research Exaggerates Rape Statistics	p. 236
No: Rape Statistics Are Not Exaggerated	p. 243
Ways of Knowing: Do Women and Men Have Different Ways of Knowing?	p. 249
Yes: Ways of Knowing: Does Gender Matter?	p. 252
No: What We Do Not Know about Women's Ways of Knowing	p. 261
Mathematics: Is Biology the Cause of Gender Differences in Performance?	p. 271
Yes: Psychological Profiles of the Mathematically Talented: Some Sex Differences and Evidence Supporting Their Biological Basis	p. 274
No: Gender Differences in Math Performance: No Big, Not Biological	p. 283
Leadership: Do Women and Men Have Different Ways of Leading?	p. 291
Yes: Leadership and the Paradox of Gender	p. 294
No: Leadership and Gender: Vive la Difference?	p. 298
Discrimination: Is Sex Stereotyping the Cause of Workplace Discrimination?	p. 307
No: The American Psychological Association's Amicus Curiae Brief in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins	p. 310
Yes: What Constitutes a Scientific Review? A Majority Retort to Barrett and Morris	p. 321
Diagnosis: Is There Gender Bias in the 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV)?	p. 337
Yes: The Politics of Psychiatry: Gender and Sexual Preference in DSM-IV	p. 340
No: Gender Issues in DSM-IV	p. 348
Relational Therapy: Is the Stone Center's Relational Theory a Source of Empowerment for Women?	p. 359
No: On the New Psychology of Women: A Cautionary View	p. 362
Yes: The Relational Model Is a Source of Empowerment for Women	p. 373
Women's Behavior: Do Mothers Harm Their Children When They Work Outside the Home?	p. 383
Yes: Nurseries and Daycare Centers Do Not Meet Infant Needs	p. 386
No: There Is No Evidence That Mothers Harm Their Infants and Toddlers by Working Outside the Home	p. 391
Men's Behavior: Is the Mythopoetic Men's Movement Creating New Obstacles for Women?	p. 399
No: We've Come a Long Way, Too, Baby. And We've Still Got a Ways to Go. So Give Us a Break!	p. 402
Yes: Weekend Warriors: The New Men's Movement	p. 406
Index	p. 421
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