Gender Studies

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.