This two-volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in the United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, concepts of womanhood and m

Disability—as with other marginalized topics in social policy—is at risk for exclusion from social debate. This multivolume reference work provides an overv

Provides a detailed subject index at the end of volume 2.

Gender and Health is the first book to examine how men's and women's lives and their physiology contribute to differences in their health. In a thoughtful synth

As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the