Becoming female : perspectives on development /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1979]
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| Series: | Women in context.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Identity and the immediate environment
- The development of female identity / Phyllis A. Katz
- Growing up black and female / Gloria Johnson Powell
- Growing up with a physical handicap / Shirley Sargent
- The father-daughter relationship : past, present, and future / Michael E. Lamb, Margaret Tresch Owen, and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
- Mothers and daughters / Phyllis R. Magrab
- Section 2. Characteristics
- Sex-related differences in spatial ability : a developmental psychological view / Lauren Julius Harris
- The role of laughter and humor in growing up female / Paul E. McGhee
- The changing nature of female delinquency / Sheila Balkan and Ronald J. Berger
- The play of girls / Brian Sutton-Smith
- Effects of observed violence on females : a critical review / Susan H. Franzblau
- Section 3. The larger environment
- Where are the women geniuses? Up the down escalator / Marilyn F. Graham and Beverly Birns
- Some cross-cultural perspectives on becoming female / Thomas S. Wisner
- "On the road to find out" : the role music plays in adolescent development / Julie Marks
- Portrait of a female on television : some possible effects on children / Norma D. Feshbach, Arline S. Dillman, and Tricia S. Jordan
- Dressing up / Shane Adler
- Section 4. Biological considerations
- The genetics of sex and its consequences / Kenneth K. Kidd
- Physical growth of adolescent girls : patterns and sequence / Margaret S. Faust
- Nutrition and women : facts and faddism / Charlotte Neumann.