Bring your learning to life with compelling images, media and text from National Geographic. GENDER ROLES: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE will help you develop a clearer understanding of the world around you through engaging content. Access to a media-enhanced eBook is included with each reader. The eleven articles in this single-themed reader present a wide range of global perspectives on the issue of gender, exploring social and cultural influences on male and female roles and behavior, and how sometimes, those traditional influences can be overturned. Accompanying each article is a summary headnote, a bulleted list of points to think about when reading the article, and a set each of discussion questions, writing activities, and collaborative activities that will help you explore in more depth the important gender issues that this reader addresses.

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This is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the theories, research, and research methods designed to explore how, why, when, and to what extent females and males differ in intellectual abilities. Halpern's lively and highly accessible writing conveys complex ideas and interrelationships among variables in an engrossing and understandable manner. Providing a thought-provoking perspective on a controversial and politically explosive topic, her treatment bridges the gap between the sensationalized, often shoddy "pop literature" and highly technical scientific publications.

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Product Description: Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael S. Kimmel challenges the claim that gender is limited to women's experiences--his compelling and balanced study of gender includes both masculine and feminine perspectives...read more