Gender and Emotion: Social Psychological Perspectives

by Keith Oatley

Book Overview

For ages, women have been considered as the emotional sex. The aim of this book is to investigate this stereotype. A wide range of emotions, such as anger, pride, shame, sadness, and joy, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521639867
• ISBN13: 9780521639866
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great overview of a fascinating topic

For anybody interested in how gender and emotion interact with each other, this volume is a treasure trove of information. Some of the chapters are a bit weaker and consist of a lot of descriptive data with few explanations or theories, but a lot of that can be attributed to the relative lack of research on this topic. Gender has taken a long time to evolve its own theories and I think it will take quite a bit longer before we see the first overarching gender and emotion theory which might help place this array of fascinating but scattered findings into a single unifiying framework. But for anyone who does or is thinking about doing research on either gender or emotion will find this volume to be a wonderful overview.