| Description |
xi, 315 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The mode of reproduction in anthropology / Sylvia J. Yanagisako and Jane F. Collier -- Thinking like a woman / Susan Moller Okin -- Ethics from the standpoint of women / Nel Noddings -- The possibility of feminist theory / Marilyn Frye -- Feminism : a transformational politic / Bell Hooks -- Definitions of difference / Deborah L. Rhode -- Legal perspectives on sexual difference / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Gender difference and beyond : an economic perspective on diversity and commonality among women / Julianne Malveaux -- Sexual difference and sexual equality / Alison M. Jaggar -- Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference : an overview / Estelle B. Freedman |
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Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference / Deborah L. Rhode -- Feminism and sexual difference in historical perspective / Karen Offen -- Feminist postmodernism : the end of feminism or the ends of theory? / Regenia Gagnier -- Darwinians confront gender : or, there is more to it than history / Carl N. Degler -- Global versus local perspectives on sexual difference / John Dupré -- The political nature of "human nature" / Ruth Hubbard -- Perspectives on sociobiology, feminism, and the law / Herma Hill Kay -- A social-psychological model of gender / Kay Deaux and Brenda Major -- Children and gender : constructions of difference / Barrie Thorne -- What is the relation between psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women? / Nancy J. Chodorow |
| Analysis |
Humans Sex differences |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Outgrowth of a conference sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender in 1987 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 263-304 |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Sex differences.
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Sex role.
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| Author |
Rhode, Deborah L.
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Stanford University. Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
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| LC no. |
89025083 |
| ISBN |
0300044275 (alk. paper) |
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0300052251 (paperback) |
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