Gender Studies

The Not-So-Happy Ending
The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life
by Peter Hyman
Welcome to the almost hip life of a reluctant metrosexual-a straight man whose tastes are just gay enough. Equal parts cultural anthropologist, amateur sexologist and witty skeptic, Hyman wryly chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood

Gender Differences
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Matthew turned five years old the summer before kindergarten started. He was looking forward to it. From what he had heard, kindergarten sounded like just one long play date with friends. He could hardly wait.

The Mine
Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
by Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler, J.D.
It snowed all day and night on Sunday. By dawn, three feet of snow covered the Mesabi Iron Range. Lois Jenson warmed her delicate hands on her coffee mug as she looked out the window of her small house in Virginia, Minnesota.

Nagging
Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes : The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
Nag: verb to annoy, badger, bend someone's ear, berate, breathe down someone's neck, worry, harrass, hassle, henpeck, pester, plague, provoke, scold, torment; noun a person, especially a woman, who nags. Nagging is a term used almost exclusively by men

True or False: The brain has a sex at birth.
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
True. Our sex is fixed and immutable-and not just at birth, but from the very moment of conception. That sex has implications for all the systems in our bodies, including our brains. But in a sense, this is a trick question, because while we are

The Difference Between Genders
The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide To Life and Love
by Adam Carolla, Drew Pinsky, M.D., Marshall Fine
Is there a secret guys need to know to understand women sexually? Do men and women approach relationships differently? I've been going out with this guy for a while. We seemed to be getting along really well, but he tells me he only wants to be friends

The Gender Myth, The World of Personality Type
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
There's no denying that those who espouse the viewpoint that gender is an inevitable barrier to good communication have struck a chord with millions of people who are frustrated with the way they deal with their partners.

Men and Women Are Different: True or False?
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
Are men and women really different? Do they really process information differently? If so, can we conclude that we have sex-specific areas of excellence in problem solving? These questions are where this book must, of necessity, begin.

Psychopathia Sexualis
Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
by Jonathan Ames
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) was a German physician and neurologist. His Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a pioneering collection of 237 case studies in sexual pathology, revolutionized the scientific understanding of sex, influencing Freud

The Hands of God
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
by Deborah Rudacille
I began the research for this book in the way that I approach every scientific subject that interests me, by searching the literature. I soon discovered that far from being a product of the modern world, gender variance has been documented across cultures

Deborah
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
by Alfred F. Young, Ph.D.
When either of the sexes reverses its common sphere of action,' her memoirist Herman Mann wrote in 1797, 'our curiosity is excited to know the cause and event.' Mann was not of an analytical mind, but, in five rambling chapters about Deborah Samson

Unasked Questions
Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female
by Dianne Hales
A lack of actual proof for their premises has never gotten in the way of medical experts' assumption that they just know the way women are. Aristotle just knew that women nursed their babies with blanched menstrual blood stored in their breasts.

Torch Song
The Friend Who Got Away : Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. The Friend Who Got Away is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave

It's Not What We Say, But What We
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
Despite the vast numbers of sonnets and songs penned in an effort to attract the attention of a beloved, scientists believe that courtship between humans happens predominantly on a nonverbal level. Physical appearance is, of course, one of the very first

Introduction
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Ph.D.
Historians live in both the present and the past, and their work reflects their Janus-like double gaze. In the mid-1990s, I found myself bewildered by forces in the society that seemed to insist on the suppression of straight talk about sex in the public

Why and How I Wrote Masquerade
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
by Alfred F. Young, Ph.D.
Deborah Sampson has been on my mind for some years, but I never thought I would write her biography. In the late 1980s when I became a guest curator at the Chicago Historical Society for an exhibit featuring ordinary people in the American Revolution

Reader's Guide
Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
by Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler, J.D.
No matter what you do for a living, Class Action raises important questions about the modern American workplace and the truth about equal opportunity. As the book's extraordinary courtroom testimony reveals, the line between dignity and economic survival

Web Thinking
The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
by Helen Fisher, Ph.D.
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment. Friedrich Nietzsche was no feminist, but he apparently appreciated the female mind. He was not the first. Women have been adding zest, wit, intelligence, and compassion to human life since

Chapter One
God of the Rodeo : The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
by Daniel Bergner
When he had finished work-building fence or penning cattle or castrating bull calves with a knife supplied by his boss on the prison farm-Johnny Brooks lingered in the saddle shed. The small cinder-block building is near the heart of Angola, Louisiana's

New York City, July 13, 1999
Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
In Journey from the Land of No Roya Hakakian recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran with candor and verve. The result is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl's attempt to find