Gender, emotion, and the family / Leslie Brody.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1999.Description: vi, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674341864
  • 067400551
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC455.4.E46 B76 1999
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.
Review: "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 gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex question of how such differences come about."--BOOK JACKET.
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2nd printing, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-354) and index.

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.

"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 gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex question of how such differences come about."--BOOK JACKET.

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