Gender and Sexuality Development: Contemporary Theory and Research

Table of Contents

1-Measuring Sex Differences and Similarities

2-Prenatal Steroid Hormones and Sex Differences in Juvenile Rhesus Macaque Behavior

3-Biological Approaches to Studying Gender Development

4-Social Influences on Gender Development: Theory and Context

5-Contemporary Cognitive Approaches to Gender Development: New Schemas, New Directions, and New Conceptualizations of Gender

6-Origins and Consequences of Childhood Gender Segregation: Towards an Integrative Developmental Systems Model

7-Gender, Toys, and Play: How Gendered Early Experiences Shape Later Development

8-Family Gender Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence

9-Gender Stereotypes and Education

10-Gender-Based Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence

11-Gender and Sexuality in Disorders/Differences of Sex Development

12-Sexuality Development in Childhood

13-Sexual Pleasure in Adolescence: A Developmental Sexual Embodiment Perspective

14-Pornography Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

15-A Review of Theoretical Models and Lifespan Approaches to the Study of Sexual Offending

16-Learned but Not Chosen: A Reward Competition Feedback Model for the Origins of Sexual Preferences and Orientations

17-Carving the Biodevelopment of Same-Sex Sexual Orientation at Its Joints

18-Mental Health Among LGBT Youth

19-Asexuality: When Sexual Attraction is Lacking

20-Erotic Target Identity Inversions

21-Consensual Non-monogamy from a Developmental Perspective