Gender, nature, and nurture

Gender, nature, and nurture / Richard A. Lippa.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lippa, Richard A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002.
Subjects:	Sex differences (Psychology) Gender identity. Nature and nurture.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1: What's the difference anyway?
The study of sex differences
Combining the results of many studies: meta-analysis
What do meta-analyses tell us about sex differences?
Beyond meta-analyses: other possible sex differences
t Masculinity and feminity: gender within gender
The search commences: Terman and Mile's early work at Stanford
Masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions
But don't masculinity and feminity make sense to most of us?
Deconstructing and reconstructing masculinity-femininity
Summary
t Ch. 3: Theories of gender
Levels of Ü 12 [2] 505 00 explanation applied to gender
Biological theories
From nature to nurture
Summary
t Ch. 4: The case for nature
Animal experiments
Humans with unusual early exposure to sex hormones
Correlational studies of hormones and behavior in humans
"Natural experiments" and sex reassignment
Biology and human sex differences
The case for biological influences
Demonstrating biological influences on