The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (The Family and Public Policy)

By Eleanor Emmons Maccoby

Book Overview

How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male and female mean? In this book, the author explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods in their lives.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674914813
• ISBN13: 9780674914810
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Coverage by Expert in the Field

Eleanor Maccoby has been doing gender for a long, long time, and her decades of academic and research experience contribute to a comprehensive, useful volume. She takes NOT a "men from mars women from venus" approach to gender, but instead focusses on the gender composition of groups in unravelling what initially appear to be differences between the genders. The 1st and 3rd sections of the book provide excellently layered literature reviews of gendered behavior in the context of specific group compositions; and the 2nd section offers objective coverage of the main theories of gender development. Highly recommended for an undergrad course!