A collection of essays dealing with controversial issues around sex and gender which includes oppositional perspectives to improve the critical thinking skills of students.
When she becomes an adult, Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to avoid Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, discards her male identity after her father's death.
Twelve-year-old Billy fights for her right to take trumpet lessons and spend time with her unorthodox grandmother, even though her parents believe these activities will not help her grow up in a ladylike fashion.
Various authors debate how sex roles were established and how men and women respond to changes in sex roles. Includes critical thinking skills activities.
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
