The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together

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Synopsis
"This book is about sex (or gender) in the broadest sense: about how an individual's development from infancy into adulthood is affected by being either a male or a female. Although some individuals are hermaphrodites, the vast majority of human beings are biologically clearly either male or female. And, again in the vast majority of cases, the sex identity assigned to an individual by society, as well as the sex identity adopted by the individual, corresponds to the person's biological sex. This book will be concerned with the development of people who are unambiguously members of one gender category or the other. In many respects, males and females take quite similar developmental paths. But in some important respects, their paths diverge. In this book I begin by showing that when boys and girls are engaged in social play, they congregate primarily with others of their own sex during the preschool and middle-childhood years, and that different childhood "cultures" prevail in these gender-segregated playgroups. I will consider the set of possible reasons why this divergence occurs, and discuss the implications of childhood divergence for the ways in which males and females interact when the two sexes converge in adolescence and adulthood. In particular, I will consider how the different social histories of the two sexes affect the relationships of heterosexual couples, the way men and women relate to each other as co-parents, and the nature of same-sex and cross-sex interactions that occur in the workplace." The Family and Public Policy Series
Copyright:
2003

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
376 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780674914827
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Parenting and Family, Psychology
Submitted By:
98
Proofread By:
Lena
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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