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Sex role

Here are entered works on the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to masculinity or femininity as determined by prevailing cultural norms. Works on a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female, are entered under Gender identity.

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• Sex (Psychology)
• Sex differences (Psychology)
• Social role

• Gender expression
• Sexism

• Sex role -- Africa
• Sex role -- Amazon River Region
• Sex role -- Asia
• Sex role -- Australia
• Sex role -- Biblical teaching
• Sex role -- China
• Sex role -- Congresses
• Sex role -- Drama
• Sex role -- Economic aspects
• Sex role -- Egypt
• Sex role -- Europe
• Sex role -- Europe, Eastern
• Sex role -- Fiction
• Sex role -- Former Soviet republics
• Sex role -- Great Britain
• Sex role -- History
• Sex role -- Humor
• Sex role -- India
• Sex role -- Juvenile fiction
• Sex role -- Latin America
• Sex role -- Lebanon
• Sex role -- Malaysia
• Sex role -- Melanesia
• Sex role -- Middle East
• Sex role -- Newfoundland and Labrador
• Sex role -- Oceania
• Sex role -- Periodicals
• Sex role -- Political aspects
• Sex role -- Religious aspects
• Sex role -- United States
• Sex role -- West (U.S.)
• Sex role -- Zambia
• Sex role in literature
• Sexual division of labor

• Gender role

• Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Carol Colatrella (PDF at Ohio State)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• Womankind (New York: Macmillan and Co.; London: Mozley and Smith, 1877), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Womankind (second edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (reissued with a new introduction; New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), by Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)
• Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to Dean (1981), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development, ed. by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, and Eudine Barriteau (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• "Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; et al., c2001), ed. by Dorothy Louise Hodgson and Sheryl McCurdy (page images at Michigan)

• Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Male and Female in Christ: Discover What the Bible Really Says About Women, and About Men (African edition, 2006), by Carrie A. Miles, Laurence R. Iannaccone, and Linda Ikeda (HTML with commentary at godswordtowomen.org)
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (c1991), ed. by John Piper and Wayne A. Grudem (PDF at cbmw.org)

• Women in China's Long Twentieth Century (c2007), by Gail Hershatter (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Miss Julie: A Play in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1914), by August Strindberg, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Taming of the Shrew (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Taming of the Shrew (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1631 Smithwicke edition), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• The Taming of the Shrew (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (searchable HTML with commentary at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy by William Shakspere, As Arranged by Augustin Daly, First Produced at Daly's Theatre, January 18, 1887, Receiving its One Hundredth Representation April 13, 1887, and Here Printed from the Prompter's Copy (Centenary edition; New York: Privately printed for Mr. Daly, 1887), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Augustin Daly, contrib. by William Winter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Postcommunism and the Body Politic (Genders 22; New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), ed. by Ellen E. Berry, contrib. by Beth Holmgren, Harriet Murav, Vida Penezic, Ewa Hauser, Katrin Sieg, Karen Remmler, Helena Goscilo, Masha Gessen, Kevin Moss, Mikhail Epstein, Teresa Polowy, and Catherine Portuges (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Headswoman (illustrated edition; London and New York: J. Lane, 1921), by Kenneth Grahame, illust. by Marcia Lane Foster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tinder-Box, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by John Edwin Jackson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Josiah Allen on the Woman Question (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1914), by Marietta Holley
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Emma Courtney (2 volumes in 1; New York: Printed for Hugh Griffith, 1802), by Mary Hays (page images at Google)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (with lesson plans and commentary), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (HTML at neh.gov and other sites)
• The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Orlando (1928), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• The Clever Woman of the Family, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Zofloya, or The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century (3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806), by Charlotte Dacre
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• Postcommunism and the Body Politic (Genders 22; New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), ed. by Ellen E. Berry, contrib. by Beth Holmgren, Harriet Murav, Vida Penezic, Ewa Hauser, Katrin Sieg, Karen Remmler, Helena Goscilo, Masha Gessen, Kevin Moss, Mikhail Epstein, Teresa Polowy, and Catherine Portuges (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Enfranchisement of Women: An Essay by Mrs. John Stuart Mill (St. Louis, MO: Woman's Suffrage Association, 1868), by Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women in the Ancient Near East (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, c2016), by Marten Stol, trans. by Helen Richardson and M. E. J. Richardson
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709), by Mrs. Manley
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Mrs. Manley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold (HTML at UC Press)

• A Daughter of the Land (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1918), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• A Daughter of the Land, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities (with predecessor publication Chrysalis Quarterly; 1995-1998) (full serial archives)
• Chrysalis Quarterly (with successor publication Chrysalis; 1991-1995) (full serial archives)

• The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Nancy Levit (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

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