Gender Emotion and the Family Author:Leslie Brody Do women express their feelings more than men? Popular stereotypes say they do, but in this provocative book, Leslie Brody breaks with conventional wisdom. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression. Brody shows that whether and how men and women express ... more »their feelings varies widely from situation to situation and from culture to culture, and depends on a number of particular characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural background, power, and status. She also examines the organization of the family, in which boys and girls elicit and absorb different emotional strategies. Lucid and level-headed, Gender, Emotion, and the Family offers an unusually rich and nuanced picture of the great range of male and female emotional styles, and the variety of the human character. "Gender, Emotion, and the Family focuses on gender differences in the experience and expression of emotion … [Brody] has gathered an amazing amount of data from innumerable studies … of the effect of environmental variables on the development of emotion." —Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "Finally, an accurate and well-balanced discussion of topics that are on everybody's mind. Brody integrates research on the socialization of violence in boys and of the caretaking role for girls … [A] highly recommended book." —F. Smolucha, Choice« less