Abstract: "Thinking About Women introduces students to the contemporary research and theoretical perspectives which observe and explain the sociological character of women's lives in American society."

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Abstract: "A son's physical, emotional, and psychological development differs vastly from that of a daughter's- and raising a son can pose unique challenges for a mother...explains how mothers can remain nurturing presences in their sons' lives throughout their many transitions."

Abstract: "Classic social history that destroys the myth that women have done and are suited for little else than bearing and rearing children."

Abstract: "As long as the work of the world was organized in a way that fostered a parallel kind of relationship between the sexes...a minimum amount of communication between [the sexes] was called for...Despite the remnants of this pattern...it appears to be on the way out. The conditions of modern life do not support it and the kind of women our times create do not like it."

Abstract: "Because both government and citizen groups are increasingly aware of the problems women face and are addressing them with new seriousness, the information contained in this Handbook will have use and value to many other groups and individuals who join Commissions of the Status of Women in creating a more equitable, just society."

Abstract: "...I came to realize that something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live their lives today...There was a strange discrepancy between the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to conform, the image that I came to call the feminine mystique."

Abstract: "...Janeway leads the reader from careful examination of the cliché 'woman's place is in the home' to sympathetic understanding of what happens when some part of a mythological pattern is transformed and social organization is affected painfully and frighteningly."

Abstract: Contents include gender and society, social institutions, and the future.

Abstract: "Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law."

Abstract: "Seven strategies for raising a strong, spirited daughter."

Abstract: "She...employs knowledge gained on her many field trips to the South Pacific...to show what very different roles have been played by men and women in other cultures."

Abstract: Teacher's manual for those using Women and Sex Roles as a text in their classroom.

Abstract: "...Ashley Montagu's classic challenge to male chauvinism that has made woman into a nonperson in a sex-caste society."

Abstract: "...Ann Oakley accepts the basic biological difference, but sees an upbringing that prepares young women exclusively for the role of wife and mother as a crippling process, hindering a girl's development as an individual of varied powers and inclinations."

Abstract: "Readings in sexual mythology and the liberation of women.

Abstract: "...invites you to see yourself among your roles, obligations, expectations, rules, masks, and stereotypes, and to start to free yourself from inhibiting behaviors."

Abstract: "Two scientist investigate the varieties of sexual behavior in the animal world and revolutionize the concept of femininity."

Abstract: "Deborah Tannen, author of the best-sellingYou Just Don't Understand, has collected key papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction."

Abstract: "Women speak their minds in a collection of vivd writings from the past and bold new statements of today."

Abstract: "...a major evaluative work on sex roles. Although the authors have avoided excessive technical language, they offer to established scholars as well as students an important work which challenges many incorrect and stereotypical views help by physical and social scientists."

Abstract: "...the first book-length study of a part of American literature that has been consistently neglected by scholars and underrepresented in anthologies - American women's humorous writing."

Abstract: "The women's movement is perhaps the most baffling of the recent social reforms to sweep the United States. It is composed of numerous distinct groups. What are their philosophies? Who are their leaders and how have their ideas evolved?"