Gender: Psychological Perspectives, 5/E
Linda Brannon, McNeese State University

ISBN-10: 0205521142
ISBN-13: 9780205521142

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 576 pp
Published: 03/02/2007

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Gender: Psychological Perspectives examines the behavior, biology, and social context in which both women and men function.  This text examines the topic of gender—the behaviors and attitudes that relate to (but are not entirely congruent with) biological sex. Research and scholarship form the basis of this book, providing the material for a critical review and an overall picture of gender from a psychological perspective. To accent the relevance of research findings in vivid detail, Brannon supplements the review of scholarly research with personal, narrative accounts of gender-relevant aspects of people's lives. Brannon highlights the cross-cultural perspective of gender by including a section on diversity in each chapter plus weaving diversity issues throughout the text. The personal narrative and diversity highlights help to balance the research-based scholarship with the personal experience of gender.

Q:  Would you like to equally cover both men and women in your gender course?

A:  Studying both women and men is essential to an understanding of gender.  Brannon’s text incorporates balanced coverage of gender with attention to and critical analysis of both men’s and women’s issues.  It examines the research and theory from psychology and related fields in order to evaluate the behavior, biology and social context in which both women and men function.

 

Q:  Do you use current research to get your students to think critically about gender?

A:  Brannon’s text presents current research findings while realizing that these findings do not always present a complete picture.  Given the complex and contradictory nature of research, the author believes it is important to understand research rather than draw conclusions based on personal opinions and popular media portrayals. 

In addition to the text’s overarching theme, “According to the Research” boxes present an opportunity for the student to reflect on the material in a more unbiased, factual manner.

 

Q:  Do you bring images of gender from popular media to your class?

A:  Not only are the sexes the topic of many private and public debates, but gender differences are also the topic of many newspaper, magazine, and television stories. 

  • “According to the Media” boxes examine how gender is portrayed in various forms of media.  In the text, they are placed opposite the “According to the Research” boxes.  The contrast of these two presentations provides an opportunity to examine gender bias and stereotyping in the media. 
  • “Headlines” sections from newspapers, journals, and magazines expose students to the bias that can be found in the media and encourages readers to think critically about the material that they read.

Q:  Would reading personal accounts of gender issues help your students understand how gender applies to people’s everyday lives?

A:  “Gendered Voices” sections throughout each chapter allow students to read narratives from real people, balancing the text’s strong research base with actual personal narratives.  These “gendered voices” is the author’s attempt to restore some of the details lost in statistical summaries, allowing men and women to tell about their personal experiences.   

 

Q:  How do you incorporate diversity in your gender course?

A:   Although diversity issues enter this text throughout, “Considering Diversity” sections have been added to ensure attention to the growing field of diversity within gender studies. Each chapter provides some context for a closer examination of a cross-cultural topic.

  • More coverage of men and men’s issues, striving for a better balance of women’s and men’s issues.
  • New chapter organization moves the discussion of gender stereotypes to the third chapter allow it to act as a framework for the book.  Examination of implicit stereotyping has also been added.
  • Now includes more than 600 new references, 12 updated headline stories, as well as several new “According to the Media” and “According to the Research” boxes.
  • Inclusion of more research on ethnicity and cross-cultural issues, both in the “Considering Diversity” sections and throughout the chapters.
  • Includes several studies on brain imaging, some that reveal and others that fail to reveal gender differences.

    • Each chapter concludes with “Considering Diversity,” “Chapter Summary,” “Glossary,” and “Suggested Readings.”

     

    1. The Study of Gender. 

    HEADLINE: “The New Gender Wars,”Psychology Today, November/December, 2000.

    History of the Study of Sex Differences in Psychology.

    Issues in the Study of Gender.


    2. Researching Sex and Gender.

    HEADLINE: “Caution: Women Seething," Vanity Fair, June, 2005.

    How Science Developed.

    Approaches to Research.

    Gender Bias in Research.


    3. Gender Stereotypes: Masculinity and Femininity.

    HEADLINE: “Stereotypes Get Shot Down," USA Today, March 7, 2006.

    Origins of Gender Stereotypes
    Conceptualizing and Measuring Masculinity and Femininity.

    The Process and Implications of Stereotyping.

      

    4. Hormones and Chromosomes.

    HEADLINES: “PMS Makes You Smarter!" CosmoGirl!, February, 2006; "Father Nature: The Making of a Modern Dad," Psychology Today, March-April 2002.
    The Endocrine System and Steroid Hormones.

    Stages of Differences between the Sexes.

    Sexual Differentiation.

    Hormones and Behavior Instability.

     

    5. Theories of Gender Development.

    HEADLINE: “Freud Was Way Wrong,” New York Times, June 11, 2000.

    The Psychodynamic Approach to Personality.

    Horney's Theory of Personality
    Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality Development
    Social Learning Theory.

    Cognitive Theories of Gender Development.

    Which Theory Is Best?


    6. Developing Gender Identity.

    HEADLINE: “My Son Doesn't Act Like a Boy,” Family Life, April 1, 2001.

    Gender Identity Development.

    Influences on Gender Development


    7. Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities.

    HEADLINE: “Lost in Space,” Vogue, June, 2001.

    Cognitive Abilities.

    Source of the Differences.

    Implications of Gender-Related Differences.

     

    8. Emotion.

    HEADLINE: “Big Boys Don't Cry-And Other Myths about Men and Their Emotions," Reader's Digest, October, 2005; There's No Crying in Business," Fortune, October 18, 2004.

    Physiological, Cognitive, and Behavioral Aspects of Emotion.

    Gender and the Experience of Emotion.

    Expressivity and Emotion.


    9. Relationships.

    HEADLINE: “Lessons from the Love Lab," Health, October, 2004.

    Friendships.

    Love Relationships.

    Dissolving Relationships.


    10. Sexuality.

    HEADLINE: “Just Don't Do It," U.S. News and World Report, October 17, 2005.

    The Study of Sexuality.

    Childhood Sexuality: Exploration and Abuse.

    Heterosexuality.

    Homosexuality.

    Bisexuality.


    11. School.

    HEADLINE: “Boy Problems," New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005.

    The School Experience.

    Achievement.


    12. Careers and Work.

    HEADLINE: “Kids vs. Career," Maclean's, March 15, 2004.

    Careers.

    Gender Issues at Work.


    13. Health and Fitness.

    HEADLINE: “Why Marriage Is Good Medicine for Men," Parade, June 18, 2006.

    Mortality: No Equal Opportunity.

    The Health Care System.

    Gender, Lifestyle, and Health.


    14. Stress, Coping, and Psychopathology.

    HEADLINE: “Are You Addicted to Stress? (No? Are You Sure?)," Redbook, July, 2005.

    Stress and Coping.

    Diagnoses of Mental Disorders.

    Gender Comparisons in Psychopathology.


    15. Treatment For Mental Disorders.

    HEADLINE: “Man's Last Stand: What Does It Take to Get a Guy into Therapy?" Psychology Today, August 2004.

    Approaches to Therapy.

    Gender Issues in Therapy.

    Sexual Exploitation in Therapy.

    The Self-Help Movement.


    16. How Different?

    HEADLINE: “What's a Modern Girl to Do? New York Times Magazine, October, 30, 2005.

    What Do Women Want? What Do Men Want?
    Multiple Roles Have Become the Rule.

    Where Are the Differences?
    Is a Peace Plan Possible?

     

    Gender: Psychological Perspectives examines the behavior, biology, and social context in which both women and men function.  Research and scholarship form the basis of this book, providing the material for a critical review and an overall picture of gender from a psychological perspective. To accent the relevance of research findings in vivid detail, Brannon supplements the review of scholarly research with personal, narrative accounts of gender-relevant aspects of people’s lives. Brannon also highlights the cross-cultural perspective of gender by including a section on diversity in each chapter, as well as weaving diversity issues throughout the text.

     

    Highlights of the Fifth Edition

    • Includes more coverage of men and men’s issues, striving for a better balance of women’s and men’s issues.
    • New chapter organization moves the discussion of gender stereotypes to the third chapter to allow it to act as a framework for the book.  Examination of implicit stereotyping also has been added.
    • Includes more than 600 new references and 12 updated headline stories, as well as several new “According to the Media” and “According to the Research” boxes.
    • Includes more research on ethnicity and cross-cultural issues, both in the “Considering Diversity” sections and throughout the chapters.
    Includes several studies on brain imaging, some that reveal gender differences and others that fail to do so.

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      ISBN-10: 0205521088 | ISBN-13: 9780205521081
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      • For courses in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Psychology.

       

      The first book that fully integrates information about the brain and neural processing into the standard curriculum in cognitive psychology.

       

      Based on a need for a text that could accurately, productively, and seamlessly integrate information on both the brain and neural processing, Edward E. Smith (Columbia University) and Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard University) created Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain 1.e. Without question, the study of cognition has progressed enormously over the past decade. Most importantly, much of the recent progress in cognitive studies has come from the advent of cognitive neuroscience, which uses neuroscientific methods and data to address psychological issues. However, throughout years of academic teaching, the authors came to realize that no currently available book was able to summarize and make accessible the major findings, theories, and research the field had produced. Now, in this text's first edition, these issues have been addressed. Using findings in neuroscience to illuminate and motivate key distinctions in cognitive psychology, the authors have written a cognitive psychology book that is informed by neuroscience - the first of its kind and one poised to set a new standard in undergraduate cognitive studies.   

       

       

       

    • 0131825089Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain
      Smith & Kosslyn
      © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0131825089 | ISBN-13: 9780131825086
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      • A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women–Amerindian, African, and European–who together forged a new world.

       

      These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers, Indian diplomats and Dutch governors, French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World suggests that the challenges of globalization–and the growing reality of American diversity–are among the most important legacies of the colonial world.

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      Rushforth & Mapp
      © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 339 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0132342375 | ISBN-13: 9780132342377
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      • For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Comparative Politics, World Politics, as well as Introduction to Politics with a comparative focus.

       

      Written in aclear, jargon-free style, Comparative Politics emphasizes political institutions and behavior–rather than on abstract conceptual frameworks. This approach makes the text  more accessible to introductory students than most other texts on comparative politics. It features both a cross-national approach which focuses helping students develop develop a comparative understanding of the types of institutions (e.g., constitutions, executives, legislatures, political parties, etc.)–as well as a country-by-country approach that examines those institutions within the contexts of eight different countries. This approach allows students to develop the ability to look how all the “pieces” fit together in various countries.

    • 0136155561Comparative Politics: An Institutional and Cross-National Approach, 5/E
      Mahler
      © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 456 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0136155561 | ISBN-13: 9780136155560
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      • Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts’ Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era.

       

      Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace. Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence.

       


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      Betts
      © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 672 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205583520 | ISBN-13: 9780205583522
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      • For undergraduate courses in Sociology of Asian Americans or Introduction to Asian American Studies.

       

      Combining the rigor of scholarship with the accessibility of journalism, this text examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the fundamental issues confronted by Asians in America today. Comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise, it focuses on a broad range of issues, and features a unique comparative approach that analyzes how race, class, and gender intersect throughout the contemporary Asian American experience.

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      Fong
      © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 400 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 013185061X | ISBN-13: 9780131850613
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      • For one-semester, junior/senior-level courses in Contemporary Sociological Theory.

      This text examines the assumptions and concepts of the five major sociological theories and the classical roots of the modern theories. It focuses specifically on functionalism, conflict theory, theories of rational choice, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenology.

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      Wallace & Wolf
      © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 480 pages | Instock
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      • A best-selling title in the urban planning market, Contemporary Urban Planning provides students with an insider's view of sub-state urban planning including details on the interplay of politics, law, money, and interest groups. This text is exceptional in its coverage of economics, law, finance, and urban governance.

       

    • 0136025455Contemporary Urban Planning, 8/E
      Levy
      © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 448 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0136025455 | ISBN-13: 9780136025450
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      • Systematically examining politics from around the world, Countries and Concepts presents ten accessible and in-depth studies of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Iran.

       

      This text looks at similarities and differences in five key areas of each country to facilitate comparative analysis, defining important concepts and integrating examples from current events throughout. Highly readable and thought-provoking, Countries and Concepts introduces students to the politics and governments of the world and bolsters their civic education by considering the historical, political, economic, geographical, and moral aspects of democracy.

    • 0136026532Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Culture, 10/E
      Roskin
      © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0136026532 | ISBN-13: 9780136026532
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      • This highly accessible book provides a basic introduction to the nature of research questions and methods of empirical research in political science. It describes the cooperative process, as well as the logic of empirical measurement and analysis of observations, in the conception and pursuit of a research project. Emphasizing the design of interesting research questions and basic problems of measurement and data analysis, the book relies more on intuitive understanding than on formal development.

       

      W. Phillips Shively wrote this book in 1970, when he was an assistant professor at Yale University. In teaching a number of sections of Introduction to Research to undergraduates there, he had found that the students benefited from an introduction that emphasized the internal logic of research methods and the collective, cooperative nature of the research process. He could not find a book that presented things in this way at a sufficiently elementary level to be readily accessible by undergraduates. And so he wrote The Craft of Political Research.

       

    • 0136029485The Craft of Political Research, 7/E
      Shively
      © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0136029485 | ISBN-13: 9780136029489
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      • This landmark text on the sociology of death and dying draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process.

       

      The text focuses on both individual and societal attitudes and how they influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar in the field who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.

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      Kastenbaum
      © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 560 pages | Estimated Availability: 12/19/2008
      ISBN-10: 0205610536 | ISBN-13: 9780205610532
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      • This comprehensive multidisciplinary text presents an empowering view of adulthood through an examination of the influences of age, gender, cohort, race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, and culture.

      The fourth edition of Development in Adulthood continues its commitment to being the most current, comprehensive, scholarly, and readable text on adult development and aging available. Retaining its theoretical foundations in the life-span developmental perspective and the contextual model of development as represented by Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, its multidisciplinary approach presents an empowering view of adulthood through an examination of the nature and sources of diversity and the influences of age, gender, cohort, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture on development. This text has been thoroughly revised to