Gender, emotion, and the family / Leslie Brody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brody, Leslie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Sex differences.

Emotions.

Families--Sex differences.

Families.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Interpersonal communication--Sex differences.

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 359p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Popular stereotypes hold that women express their feelings more than men, but Leslie Brody argues that nurture, not nature, is the stronger force. Culture, ethnicity, status and particularly the organisation of the family all affect emotional expression.

Do women express their feelings more than men? Popular stereotypes say they do, but in this text, Leslie Brody breaks with conventional wisdom. Her work integrates biological and socio-cultural developments to explore the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex questions of how such differences come about. ;Nurture, far more than nature, it is argued, emerges as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression. Brody shows that whether and how men and women express their feelings varies widely form situation to situation and from culture to culture, and depends on a number of particular characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural background, power, and status.; Especially pertinent is the organization of the family, in which boys and girls elicit and absorb different emotional strategies. Brody also examines the importance of gender roles, whether in the family, the peer group, or the culture at large, as men and women use various patterns of emotional expression to adapt to power and status imbalances.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 Introduction

I The Nature and Extent of Gender Differences

2 Understanding Emotional Expression

3 Words, Faces, Voices, and Behaviors

4 Physiological Arousal and Patterns of Emotional Expression

5 Sad or Mad? The Quality of Emotions

II Gender, Biology, and the Family

6 The State of the Art: Biological Differences?

7 Transactional Relationships within Families

8 Gender Identification and De-identification in the Family

9 Fathers and the Family Climate

III Cultural Origins and Consequences of Gender Differences

10 Social Motives, Power, and Roles

11 Stereotypes and Display Rules

12 The Power of Peers

13 The Health Consequences of Gender- Stereotypic Emotional Expression

14 Rethinking Gender and Emotion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-354) and index.

ISBN:

9780674028821

0674028821

OCLC:

923108499