International Handbook on Gender Roles

This valuable and unique reference surveys and synthesizes information on gender roles in more than thirty countries from around the world. Each chapter is devoted to a single country, and the chapters are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of use. All of the chapters are written from the perspective of experts who have lived and worked in the countries profiled. To foster cross-national comparisons, each chapter follows the same format, including an introduction and contextual overview; gender roles in infancy and childhood, school years, young adulthood, adulthood, and old age; and a summary and conclusions. The design of the chapters traces the development of gender roles across the life-cycle and affords an additional opportunity for comparing data. This reference will be of interest to anyone concerned with gender issues, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

.,."As the world shrinks and cultures interact, clash, and blend, an understanding of culturally defined gender roles is becoming as important as an understanding of different political and economic systems. The Handbook provides the information on which to base both that understanding and further study of a topic that touches everyone, every day."-Wilson Library Bulletin, .,."This handbook...provides general background for seminar discussions and for others seeking an overview of gender roles in specific countries."-Political Psychology, ?. . . A significant cross-cultural summary and assessment of gender role research, offering a basis both for understanding discriminatory practices and for advancing the rights of all people irrespective of gender.?-Feminist Collections, ?...As the world shrinks and cultures interact, clash, and blend, an understanding of culturally defined gender roles is becoming as important as an understanding of different political and economic systems. The Handbook provides the information on which to base both that understanding and further study of a topic that touches everyone, every day.?-Wilson Library Bulletin, ?...This handbook...provides general background for seminar discussions and for others seeking an overview of gender roles in specific countries.?-Political Psychology

LEONORE LOEB ADLER is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural and Cross-Ethnic Studies at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. An internationally recognized authority on gender roles and cross-cultural psychology, she has authored more than sixty articles in professional journals and organizational publications. Her books include Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Praeger, 1991), Cross-Cultural Research in Human Development (Praeger, 1989), and Cross-Cultural Topics in Psychology (Praeger, in press).