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Masculinity and Femininity: Their Psychological Dimensions, Correlates, and Antecedents

Masculinity and Femininity: Their Psychological Dimensions, Correlates, and Antecedents

Spence, Janet T.

Paperback

General Gender StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 0292750528
ISBN13: 9780292750524
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 1 1978
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Many societies assign sharply distinguished roles to men and women. Personality differences, as well as physical differences, between men and women are used to justify these different sex roles, and women are seen as more emotionally and interpersonally sensitive than men, while men are said to be more competent, achievement oriented, and assertive than women. A widely held view is that not only do men and women differ but that possession of masculine characteristics precludes possession of feminine characteristics. This bipolar conception has led to the definition of masculinity and femininity as opposites. Acceptance of this idea has caused social scientists and laypersons to consider men and women who possess cross-sex personality characteristics as less emotionally healthy and socially adjusted than those with sex-appropriate traits. Previous research by the authors and others, done almost exclusively with college students, has shown, however, that masculinity and femininity do not relate negatively to each other, thus supporting a dualistic rather than a bipolar conception of these two psychological dimensions.

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