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Male Susceptibility and
Female Emancipation

Studies on the Gender Difference in Morality


By Örjan Hemström
Dec. 1998 (Almqvist & Wiksell)
ISBN: 91-22-01817-4
177 p.
$49.00 Paper Original


This book examines the social determinants of gender morality differences – generally a higher morality for men than women. In Sweden, this has been observed since 1751. The book advocates an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for a better understanding of gender morality differences.

Sociology
Series: Stockholm Studies in Sociology