Gender, emotion, and the family

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Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell

"This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa - the many forms of violence (wars, genocides, familial violence, and crime) and the AIDS pandemic - it is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures, and a variety of religious and knowledge systems creates masculine identities and sexualities. The work done in the book particularly bears in mind how vulnerability and marginalization produce complex forms of male identity. The book is interdisciplinary and is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of African men as a gendered category."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pilar Sordo

Lo importante será descubrir los aspectos masculinos y femeninos que hemos desarrollado y cómo podemos equilibrar y complementar ambos matices desde nuestro interior para poder hacer más fluida e íntegra nuestra estabilidad psicológica y, por ende, lograr la armonía necesaria para poder desarrollarnos con plenitud, tanto respecto de uno mismo como con los seres que más queremos.

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Alan Fogel ... [et al

"This book is about how a relationship transforms itself from one pattern of communication to another. The authors present a unique research method called "relational-historical research", based on advances in dynamic systems theory in developmental psychology, and qualitative methods in life history research."--Jacket.

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Beth Bonniwell Haslett, Wendy Samter

Children Communicating: The First 5 Years is the first volume to integrate diverse bodies of research, enabling readers to garner further insights into the development of human communication. Beth Bonniwell Haslett and Wendy Samter examine how nonverbal communication, language, and cognition are integrated in a growing child's everyday interaction. Key principles and practices for parents or adults interested in child development are derived from a variety of fields including developmental and social psychology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and communication. Useful to students and scholars alike, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the various components of human communicative development and its significance for the child's cognitive and emotional growth.