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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

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• Sex role -- Political aspects
• Sex role -- Religious aspects
• Sex role -- United States
• Sex role -- West (U.S.)
• Sex role -- Zambia
• Androgyny (Psychology)
• 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)
• Sex role socialization / sex discrimination : a bibliography / (Washington : Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, [Education Division], National Institute of Education, 1979), by Constantina Safilios-Rothschild and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (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 (London : Printed for John Morphew, 1709), by Mrs. Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's mission. (London : J.W. Parker, 1839), by Aime . Sur l'e ducation des me res Martin, Sarah Lewis, and Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex equity in Illinois schools : problems, research and remedies. ([Springfield, Ill.] : State Board of Education, Illinois Office of Education, Women's Educational Equity Task Force, 1977), by Illinois. Women's Educational Equity Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame & lilies : The Two paths, & The King of the golden river / (London : J.M. Dent & Co. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1909), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The taming of the shrew, (New York, The Macmillan company, c1912), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick Tupper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The home builder / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1910), by Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and work, new options : a guide to nonprint media / (Arlington, Va. : ERIC Document Reproduction Service, operated by Computer Microfilm International Corp., 1979), by Linda J. Artel and Valerie Wheat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew; (New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Henry Ten Eyck Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le problème des sexes. Microform (Paris, V. Giard & E. Brière, 1900), by Jacques Lourbet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making people happy, (New York, W.J. Watt and company, [c1911]), by Thompson Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew, (New York, T. Y. Crowell & Co., [c1908]), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Helen Archibald Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew, (London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield and company, 1907), by William Shakespeare and W. G. Boswell-Stone, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes / (Halle a. d. S. : C. Marhold, 1904), by P. J. Möbius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Défenses du beau séxe, ou mémoires historiques, philosophiques et critiques, pour servir d'apologie aux femmes, tome premier [-quatriéme] (Amsterdam : 'Aux dépens de la Compagnie, MDCCLIII [1753]), by Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• In alles vrouw / (Amersfoort : J. Valkhoff, [1909]), by F.W. Drijver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sesame and lilies ; and The crown of wild olive / (New York : The Century Co., 1901), by John Ruskin and binding designer Decorative Designers (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crux : a novel / (New York : Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Issues of sex bias and sex fairness in career interest measurement / ([Washington] : Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institute of Education, Career Education Program, 1975), by Esther E. Diamond and National Institute of Education (U.S.). Career Education Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of life : woman's triumph over man, in three parts / ([S.l.] : J.T. Carter, c1902), by James Thomas Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex role socialization and sex discrimination : a synthesis and critique of the literature / ([Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institute of Education], 1979), by Constantina Safilios-Rothschild and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ce que nous devons à la femme / (Paris : M. Rivière, 1913), by Joseph Valmor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great moments in a woman's life / (Chicago : Forbes & Company, 1910), by Emily Calvin Blake, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and John Forbes & Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sesame and lilies, (Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Co., [c1920]), by John Ruskin, ed. by James Weber Linn (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'éducation des mères de famille, ou, De la civilisation du genre humain par les femmes / (Paris : Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1834), by Louis-Aimé Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and politics : political correlates of sex-role acceptance / (Tucson : Institute of Government Research, University of Arizona, 1974), by Thomas J. Volgy and Sandra Sue Volgy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ėti︠u︡dy o prirodi︠e︡ zhenshchiny i muzhchiny : osnovanīi︠a︡ polovogo i zhenskago voprosov v ikh vzaimnoĭ svi︠a︡zi / (Moskva : Kn-vo Breĭtigama, 1908), by Elizaveta Sergeevna Drentelʹn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Teacher skill guide for combatting sexism / ([Washington, D.C.] : Women's Educational Equity Act Program, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare ; Newton, Mass. : Distributed and printed by Education Development Center, 1979), by Wendy Leebov Gollub, Debra G. Klinman, and Education Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the education of daughters / (London : Printed by and for W. Darton, Jun., 58, Holborn Hill, opposite Ely Place, 1812), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, contrib. by William Darton (page images at HathiTrust)
• LÍ¡iubovʹ, pol i religiÍ¡ia / (RÍ¡iazanʹ : T-vo "Izdatelʹstvo", 1924), by M. A. ReÄ­sner and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), illust. by Topikov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mostra as immensas vantagens que a sociedade inteira obtem da illustracão, virtudes e perfeita educação da mulher como mãi, e esposa do homem. ([Rio de Janeiro], P.Brito, 1853), by Zaira Americana and A. de Pinho, contrib. by Francisco de Paula Brito, illust. by Louis-Alexis Boulanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia moral de las mujeres : el bello sexo vindicado : influencia de la mujer en el progreso y cultura de las naciones, sus deberes, sus derechos en la sociedad y la familia : educación y enseñanza que convendría para su misión : estudio filosófico recreativo / (Barcelona : F. Nacente Editor, [189-?]), by Francisco Nacente (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The young lady's own book : a manual of intellectual improvement and moral deportment / (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1839), by Author of The young man's own book and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ruskin's Sesame and lilies; (New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett & Company, [1900]), by John Ruskin, ed. by Agnes Spofford Cook Gale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's work in the home as daughter, as wife, and as mother / (London : James Nisbet, 1895), by F. W. Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in archaeology : a feminist critique / (Canberra, Australia : Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1993), by Laurajane Smith and Hilary du Cros (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of Freestyle : a television series to reduce sex-role stereotypes / (Ann Arbor, Mich. : Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1980), by Jerome Johnston, Terrence N. Davidson, and James S. Ettema (page images at HathiTrust)
• The male sex role : a selected and annotated bibliography / (Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ; Washington, D.C. : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by Kathleen E. Grady, Joseph H. Pleck, and Robert Brannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex, power and magic : constructing and contesting love magic and premarital sex in Lombok / (Canberra, ACT, Australia : Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, c2000), by Linda Rae Bennett and Gender Relations Project (Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Market dreams : gender, class, and capitalism in the Czech Republic / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elaine Weiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of reach for young children : nonsexist early childhood education / (Washington : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by Tish Henslee, Peg Jones, and United States. Office of Education. Women's Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex roles : a research bibliography / (Rockville, Md. : National Institute of Mental Health ; Washington : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Helen S. Astin, Anne Fisher, and Allison Parelman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gender in transition : discourse and practice in German-speaking Europe, 1750-1830 / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Marion W. Gray and Ulrike Gleixner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Being a man : a unit of instructional activities on male role stereotyping / ([Washington] : Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, [Education Division], Office of Education : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by David Miller Sadker, National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. Resources Center for Sex Roles in Education, and United States. Office of Education. Women's Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's mission. (London : John W. Parker, 1839), by Aimé Martin and Sarah Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sei to shakai = Sex & society / (Tōkyō : Fuji Shuppan, 1983), by Senji Yamamoto and "Sei to Shakai" Sha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The taming of the shrew : being the original of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the shrew' / (New York : Duffield ; London, Chatto & Windus, 1908), by William Shakespeare and Frederick S. Boas, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lady's token, or Gift of friendship / (Nashua, N.H., Published by J. Buffum, 1848), by Cotesworth Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environmental influences on genetic expression: biological and behavioral aspects of sexual differentiation / (Bethesda, Md : [National Institutes of Health; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1970]), by Symposium on Environmental Influences on Genetic Expression (1969 : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)), Dwain N. Walcher, Norman Kretchmer, John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Changes in male-female relationships and family life in the People's Republic of China / (Honolulu, Hawaii : HITAHR, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii, [1982]), by John W. Engel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Mubtakar fī bayān mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-muʼannath wa-al-mudhakkar /, by Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥmad Naqawī and Osler Library. Lithograph. Persian 7786/19, contrib. by William Osler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life at four corners : religion, gender, and education in a German-Lutheran community, 1868-1945 / (Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1992), by Carol Coburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mission : colonial discourse on gender and the politics of Burma / (Canberra, ACT, Australia : Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, c1994), by Tinzar Lwyn and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Gender Relations Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gender matters : rereading Michelle Z. Rosaldo / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Bill Maurer and Alejandro Lugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build the Canadian house /, by Helen MacMurchy and issuing body Canada. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in traditionally male jobs : the experiences of ten public utility companies /, by United States. Employment and Training Administration, Florence M. Casey, Mary Dean Lee, and Herbert Henry Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Atlantis de Madame Manley, : contenant les intrigues politiques, et amoureuses, de la noblesse d'Angleterre. Et de quelques Cours du Nord. Et où l'on découvre le secrèt des dernieres revolutions. ([Netherlands : Henri Scheurleer] ; Selon la copie imprimée a Londres : chez Jean Morphew, M. DCC. XVI [1714]), by Delarivier Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex role attitudes among high school seniors : views about work and family roles / (Ann Arbor, Mich. : Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, [1981]), by A. Regula Herzog, Jerald G. Bachman, National Institute of Education (U.S.), and University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weiberhaß und Weiberverachtung: Eine Erwiderung auf die in Dr. Otto Weiningers Buche »Geschlecht und Charakter« geäußerten Anschauungen über »Die Frau und ihre Frage« (in German), by Grete Meisel-Hess (Gutenberg ebook)

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