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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.
When their parents divorce, some children falter and others thrive.
This book asks why. Is it the custody arrangement? A parent's new
partner? Conflict or consistency between the two households?
Adolescents after Divorce follows teenagers from 1,100 divorcing
families to discover what makes the difference. Focusing on a
period beginning four years after the divorce, the authors have the
articulate, often insightful help of their subjects in exploring
the altered conditions of their lives. These teenagers come from a
wide range of backgrounds. Some are functioning well. Some are
faring poorly. The authors examine the full variety of situations
in which these children find themselves once the initial disruption
has passed - whether parents remarry or repartner, how parents
relate to each other and to their children, and how life in two
homes is integrated. Certain findings emerge - for instance,
remarried new partners are better accepted than cohabiting new
partners. And when parents' relations are amicable, adolescents in
dual custody are less likely than other adolescents to experience
loyalty conflicts. The authors also consider the effects of
visitation arrangements, The demands made and the goals set within
each home, and the emotional closeness of the residential parent to
the child. A mine of information on a topic that touches so many
Americans, this study will be crucial for researchers, counselors,
lawyers, judges, and parents.
Questions about how children fare in divided families have become
as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work
on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor
Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and
legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for
their children.
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