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Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, 4/e
Brian Strong, University of California, Santa Cruz
Barbara Werner Sayad, California State University, Monterey Bay
Christine DeVault, Cabrillo College
William Yarber, Indiana University
Gender and Gender Roles

Chapter Outline

  1. Studying Gender and Gender Roles
    1. Sex, Gender, and Gender Roles: What’s the Difference?
    2. Sex and Gender Identity
    3. Masculinity and Femininity: Opposites or Similar?
    4. Gender and Sexual Orientation
    5. Gender Theory
  2. Gender-Role Learning
    1. Theories of Socialization
    2. Gender-Role Learning in Childhood and Adolescence
    3. Gender Schemas: Exaggerating Differences
  3. Contemporary Gender Roles
    1. Traditional Gender Roles
    2. Changing Gender Roles
    3. Androgyny
  4. When Gender Is Ambiguous: Intersexuality, Transsexuality, and Transgenderism
    1. Intersexuality: Atypical Chromosomal and Hormonal Conditions
    2. Think About It: A New Approach in the Treatment of Sexual Ambiguities
    3. Transsexuality
    4. Think About It: Transsexual Surgery
    5. The Transgender Phenomenon








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