Sex and Gender: An Introduction, Seventh Edition

Are sex and gender really two different things? How malleable is gender identity? Do both gender and sex have to be conceptualized as binaries—as having two distinct but complementary categories? Should we emphasize gender differences, or is that the wrong question? When should we call a gender difference "small"? Are women really "nonaggressive" or does that label stem from stereotyping? How does subtle or "modern" sexism work on its targets?
Scholarship on these and other gender-related questions has exploded in recent years. Hilary Lips synthesizes that research for students in an accessible and readable way. Concepts on sex and gender are presented with the social context in which they were developed. As in previous editions, Lips takes a multicultural approach, discussing the gender experiences of people from a wide range of races, cultures, socioeconomic statuses, and gender and sexual identities. She emphasizes empirical research but takes a critical approach to that research.
Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.
Also available from Waveland Press by Hilary M. Lips, A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478631880).
Title of related interest available from Waveland Press: Mascia-Lees, Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: Twenty-First-Century Anthropology (ISBN 9781577665984).