Taking Sex Differences Seriously

by Steven E. Rhoads

Overview

This provocative book dispels social cliches and spotlights biological realities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893554931
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	05/01/2004
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.64(w) x 8.18(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
Part 1	Nature Matters
1	Androgynous Parenting at the Frontier	8
2	Masculinity/Femininity	14
Part 2	Men Don't Get Headaches
3	Sex	46
4	Fatherless Families	79
5	The Sexual Revolution	96
Part 3	Men Want Their Way
6	Aggression, Dominance and Competition	134
7	Sports, Aggression and Title IX	159
Part 4	Women Want Their Way, Too
8	Nurturing the Young	190
9	Day Care	223
	Conclusion	244
	Acknowledgments	264
	Notes	267
	Bibliography	305
	Index	363

Editorial Reviews

"Professor Rhoads case for la difference is comprehensive and persuasive." -- Danielle Crittenden, author of What Our Mothers Didnt Tell us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman.

"Rhoads provides a responsible, clear, exhaustive, and convincing description of human sex differences...." -- Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University

"Scintillating and utterly persuasiveRhoads marshals massive amounts of evidence showing why they are wrong." -- Christina Hoff Sommers, American Enterprise Institute

"This book demonstrates in a host of ways how awareness of these differences will have important implications for social policy." -- Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man and Our Posthuman Future

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