International Handbook on Gender Roles - Hardcover

Leonore Loeb Adler

 
9780313283369: International Handbook on Gender Roles

Synopsis

This valuable and unique reference surveys and synthesizes information on gender roles in more than thirty countries from around the world. Each chapter is devoted to a single country, and the chapters are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of use. All of the chapters are written from the perspective of experts who have lived and worked in the countries profiled. To foster cross-national comparisons, each chapter follows the same format, including an introduction and contextual overview; gender roles in infancy and childhood, school years, young adulthood, adulthood, and old age; and a summary and conclusions. The design of the chapters traces the development of gender roles across the life-cycle and affords an additional opportunity for comparing data. This reference will be of interest to anyone concerned with gender issues, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

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About the Author

LEONORE LOEB ADLER is Director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural & Cross-Ethnic Studies at Molloy College in New York.

UWE P. GIELEN is Professor of Psychology at St. Francis College in New York.

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