Linguistic gender is a complex and amazing category that has puzzled and still puzzles theoretical linguists, typologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, d

Research conducted in schools over the past two decades has found that youth shape who they are in ways that do not simply mirror class, race, and gender discou

Presents biological arguments against and in support of the claims of feminism, and discusses the importance of biological factors in the current position of wo

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.

An insightful, and often surprising, look at adolescent girls' socialization in a historically elite, private, single-sex high school.