Why Gender Matters · What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differe Nces by Sax, Leonard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents Dedication Praise Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Left Brain Verbal, Right Brain Spatial? Lessons from the Nursery The Eye of the Beholder Girls Draw Nouns, Boys Draw Verbs Ask for Directions? Trucks, Rockets, Dolls, and Crayons Feelings The Sorry Burden of the Past Gender Differences vs. Gender Stereotypes: Barbie Liberation! Sex Differences vs. Sexual Orientation

Chapter 3

Tossing the Ring Living Dangerously Learned Helplessness The Blessing of a Skinned Knee? Hazard Precautions

Chapter 4

Jeffrey Lessons from the Playground Affirm the Knight The PainStation Fight or Flight? Fight Club Grand Theft Auto Violence, Girl Style

Chapter 5

Melanie Face-To-Face, Shoulder-To-Shoulder Hearing the Difference The Teacher’s Guilty Secret A Different Sequence Girls Are Shortchanged, Too Facts, Fiction, and Feelings When Is an A Not an A?

Chapter 6

Tina and Jimmy Hooking Up Choosing Virginity? Oxytocin, Testosterone, and Rape The Male Paradigm Clueless Are Boys Human? Playing a Role So What Can You Do about It?

Chapter 7

Caitlyn Different Drugs, Different Highs Risk Factors Ethan This Is Your Brain on Drugs Look in the Mirror Just the Facts, Please What’s for Supper? The Day Everything Changes

Chapter 8

Kristen The Oozing of Parental Authority Positive Discipline Look in the Mirror, Again The Punishment Must Fit the Crime— and the Gender, and the Age Induction Discipline Begins in the Nursery Nuts and Bolts Isn’t Spanking a Form of Child Abuse? Spare the Rod, Sedate the Child? Kristen, Interrupted

Chapter 9

Daniel The Passion of Simon LeVay Hearing the Difference Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Take a Walk on the Wild Side Lesbian: Born or Made? Martin The Anomalous Male Amy Differences

Chapter 10

A Gender-Blind Society? Beyond Pink and Blue

Afterword Source Notes A Semantic Not on “Sex” and “Gender” How Faminine are You How Masculine are You Permissions Acknowledgments Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Page