Questions of Gender: Perspectives and Paradoxes

Dina L. Anselmi is an Associate Professor at Trinity College in Hartford CT., where she teaches courses in the areas of psychology of gender, child development,and language and cognition. Professor Anselmi conducts research on children's language development, bilingualism in children, and family influence on children's development of emotion stereotypes and has been awarded grants from the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation. In 1994 she was awarded Trinity College's highest award for teaching excellence - the Thomas Church Brownell award.

1: Defining Sex and GenderJust What Are Sex and Gender, Anyway? A Call for a New Terminological Standard, Douglas A. GentileSex and Gender -- The Troubled Relationship between Terms and Concepts, Rhoda K. Unger and Mary CrawfordSorry, Wrong Number -- A Reply to Gentile's Call, Kay DeauxThe Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough, Anne Fausto-SterlingRace and Sex as Biological Categories, Ruth HubbardToward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection, Patricia Hill Collins2: Studying GenderEpistemological Debates, Feminist Voices: Science, Scoial Values, and the Study of Women, Stephanie RigerTheorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Social Science, Scott ColtraneShould Psychologists Study Gender Differences? Yes, With Some Guidelines, Janet Shibley HydeOn Comparing Women and Men, Alice H. EaglyStereotypes, Science, Censorship, and the Study of Sex Differences, Diane F. HalpernAsking the Right Questions: Feminist Psychology and Sex Differences, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin and Jeanne MarecekChapter 3: Biology and GenderWhere It All Begins: The Biological Bases of Gender, Holly DevorPsychological Sex Differences: Origins Through Sexual Selection, David M. BussThe Political Nature of "Human Nature," Ruth HubbardChapter 4: Gender and CultureThe Longest War: Gender and Culture, Carole Wade and Carol TavrisWomen, Men and Aggression in an Egalitarian Society, Maria LepowskyMen of Color: Ethnocultural Variations of Male Gender Role Strain, Richard F. Lazur and Richard Majors5: Gender Roles and StereotypesPsychological Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity, Kay DeauxManhood: Why Is Being a "Real Man" So Often a Prize to Be Won? David D. GilmoreOvercoming Stereotypes of Mothers in the African American Context, Elizabeth E. SparksWhat's So Special About Sex? Gender Stereotyping and Discrimination, Susan T. Fiske and Laura E. Stevens6: Gender Identity DevelopmentGender Schema Theory and Its Implications for Child Development: Raising GEnder-aschematic Children in a Gender-schematic Society, Sandra Lipsitz BemPsychosocial and Cognitive Determinants of Early Gender-Role Development, Beverly I. FagotGender and Relationships: A Developmental Account, Eleanor E. Maccoby7: Gender and SexualityGender and the Organization of Sexual Behavior, Lenore Tiefer and Brunhild KringSexual Orientation and Development: An Interactive Approach, Michael R. Kauth and Seth C. KalichmanIntimate Relationships and the Creation of Sexuality, Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz8: Gender Behavior in a Social ContextA Social-Psychological Model of Gender, Kay Daux and Brenda MajorGender in the Psychology of Emotion: A Selective Research Review, Stephanie A. ShieldsDeconstructing the Myth of the Nonaggressive Woman: A Feminist Analysis, Jacquelyn W. White and Robin M. KowalskiGender and Altruism, Alice H. Eagly9: Gender, Cognition, and EducationDifferences in Cognition: Research Dilemmas and RecommendationsWhy Diversity is a Critical Research Issues, Diane HalpernGender and Math: What Makes a Difference? Meredith M. KimballThe Current Status of Gender Equity Research in American Schools, Susan McGee BaileyAnita Hill Is a Boy: Tales From a Gender-Fair Classroom, Peggy Orenstein10: The Paradox of RelationshipsMen, Women, and Friendship: What They Say, What They Do, Karen WalkerLesbian and Gay Relationships, L. Anne PeplauIndividualistic and Collective Perspectives on Gender and the Cultural Context of Love and Intimacy, Kenneth Dion and Karen L. Dion11: Gender and Reconceptualizing the FamilyWhat We Call Each Other, Andee HochmanReconsidering Research on Divorce, Family Life Cycle, and the Meaning of Family, Joy K. RiceWhat Fathers Provide? Reconsidering the Economic and Nurturant Dimensions of Men as Parents, Theodore F. CohenThe Allocation of Household Labor in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Married Couples, Lawrence A. Kurdek12: Social Institutions and GenderGuarding the Gates: The Micropolitics of Gender, Judith LorberAffirmative Action in Theory and Practice: Issues of Power, Ambiquity, and Gender versus Race, Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Susan T. FiskeSexual Terrorism: The Social Control of Women, Carole J. SheffieldPain Explodes In a World of Power: Men's Violence, Michael Kaufman13: Gender and HealthMan-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity, Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth FeeHealth Issues for Women in the 1990s, Iris F. LittCan Women Cope? A Gender Analysis of Theories of Coping With Stress, Victoria L. Banyard and Sandra A. Graham-BermannThe Relationship Between Masculine Gender Role Stress and Men's Health Risk: The Validation of a Construct, Richard M. EislerChapter 14: Gender, Mental Health, and PsychopathologyGender and Psychological Distress, Ellen Piel CookA Short History of the Future: Feminism and Clinical Psychology, Jeanne Marecek and Rachel T. Hare-MustinThe Politics of Psychiatry: Gender and Sexual Preference in DSM-IV, Terry A. KupersClinical Diagnosis among Diverse Populations: A Multicultural Perpsective, Alison SolomonThe Future of Feminist Therapy, Laura S. Brown and Annette M. Brodsky