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Gender, emotion, and the family /

"Do Women express their feelings more than men? Popular stereotypes say they do, but in this provocative book, Leslie Brody breaks with conventional wisdom. Integrating a wealth of perspectives and research - biological, sociocultural, developmental - her work explores the nature and extent of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brody, Leslie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding emotional expression
  • Words, faces, voices, and behaviors
  • Physiological arousal and patterns of emotional expression
  • Sad or mad? The quality of emotions
  • The state of the art: biological differences?
  • Transactional relationships within families
  • Gender identification and de-identification in the family
  • Fathers and the family climate
  • Social motives, power, and roles
  • Stereotypes and display rules
  • The power of peers
  • The health consequences of gender-stereotypic emotional expression
  • Rethinking gender and emotion.