Gender and society : essays based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford / edited by Colin Blakemore, Susan Iversen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blakemore, Colin.

Iversen, Susan D., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Sex differences.

Women--Social conditions.

Sex.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Local Subjects:

Sex.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, drawn from the Herbert Spencer Lectures at Oxford University. Here, Peter N. Goodfellow, Germaine Greer, Sarah Blaffer Hardy, Lucia Jacobs, Michele Le Doeuff, and Susan Cotts Watkins discuss current thinking on sex, gender, and gender and society. Topics include the socially constructed nature of gender, gender and rape, birth control in the developing world, information processing by men and women, sexual selection, and the interplay of fertility and literacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198297920

OCLC:

42780783