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The Two Sexes - Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Two Sexes - Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Family and Public Policy
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How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from
obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In
this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores
how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods
of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two
Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through
adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender. Chief among
Maccoby's contentions is that gender differences appear primarily
in group, or social, contexts. In childhood, boys and girls tend to
gravitate toward others of their own sex. The Two Sexes examines
why this segregation occurs and how boys' groups and girls' groups
develop distinct cultures with different agendas. Deploying
evidence from her own research and studies by many other scholars,
Maccoby identifies a complex combination of biological, cognitive,
and social factors that contribute to gender segregation and group
differentiation. A major finding of The Two Sexes is that these
childhood experiences in same-sex groups profoundly influence how
members of the two sexes relate to one another in adulthood-as
lovers, coworkers, and parents. Maccoby shows how, in constructing
these adult relationships, men and women utilize old elements from
their childhood experiences as well as new ones arising from
different adult agendas. Finally, she considers social changes in
gender roles in light of her discoveries about the constraints and
opportunities implicit in the same-sex and cross-sex relationships
of childhood.
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