Taking sides. Clashing views in gender / selected, edited, and with introductions by Jacquelyn W. White

Includes bibliographical references

Unit 1. DEFINITIONS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES: A MOVING TARGET -- Is anatomy destiny? -- Is gender identity innate? -- Do sex differences in careers in mathematics and sciences have a biological basis? -- Unit 2. DIFFERENT STROKES: THE QUESTION OF DIFFERENCE -- Are women and men more similar than different? -- Are different patterns of communication in women and men innately determined? -- Are the fight-or-flight and tend-and-befriend responses to stress gender-based? -- Unit 3. VIOLENCE IN THE DAILY LIVES OF WOMEN AND MEN -- Are expressions of aggression related to gender? -- Gender symmetry: do women and men commit equal levels of violence against intimate partners? -- Does pornography reduce the incidence of rape? -- Unit 4. FROM OZZIE AND HARRIET TO MY TWO DADS: GENDER IN CHILDHOOD -- Should same-sex couples be able to marry? -- Can lesbian and gay couples be appropriate parents for children? -- Are fathers essential for children's well-being? -- Is fetal sex selection harmful to society? -- Unit 5. FROM 9 TO 5: GENDER IN THE WORLD OF WORK -- Does the "Mommy Track" (part-time work) improve women's lives? -- Can social policies improve gender inequalities in the workplace? -- Is the gender wage gap justified? -- Are barriers to women's success as leaders due to societal obstacles? -- Unit 6. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: DOUBLE STANDARDS? -- Is female circumcision universally wrong? -- Should "Abstinence-Until-Marriage" be the only message to teens? -- Can women's sexuality be free from traditional gender constraints?