Sex and gender differences in personal relationships the guilford series on personal relationships authors daniel j canary tara m emmers sommer sandra faulkner publisher guilford press. Sex and gender differences in personal relationships daniel j canary tara m emmers sommer sandra faulkner challenging the commonly held assumption that men and women hail from different psychological and social planets this illuminating work reexamines what the empirical research really shows about . Additionally the authors present an activity based model of sex gender differences similarities in personal relationships specifically the authors argue that gender is socially relational constructed and reconstructed in personal relationships through mens and womens different but sometimes similar activities most notably division of labor and play leisure activities according to this perspective gender emerges from activities which can change over time that is as mens and . Sex and gender differences in personal relationships daniel j canary tara m emmerssommer with sandra faulkner new york guilford 1997 190 pp isbn 1 57230 256 9 2795 cloth despite its title this book is oriented to sex and gender similarities as much as differences the authors state a dislike of recent research literature especially books aimed at lay audiences that perpetuates stereotypes by painting women and men as polar opposites by way of response this monograph