Man and Woman in today’s world: Shifting roles and images

In this book historians, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, physicians, biologists, and public figures present the results of their research and expound their views on sex relationships. Volume 1 (ISBN 5201146481) contains papers on sex aspects of the modern social, economic and political situation in Russia. Most of the researchers agree that crumbling social and economic structures have produced particularly strong trends towards sex assimilation. Woman is hit particularly hard by pauperization, industrial decline, and unemployment. She is underrepresented in government structures. At the same time woman currently shows a higher level of adaptation to an unstable social and economic environment. The book scrupulously records many changes within the Russian family. Volume 2 (ISBN 5201146473) examines medical, biological, and social aspects of sex differences, i.e.: biology of male and female, child development and environment, the impact of social and economic conditions on the physical development of children, sex stereotypes, distribution of pathologies. Tables, charts, bibliographic references.