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The Gender Trap : Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls /

"Emily Kane shows clearly that most parents understand children's personality to be some combination of nature and nurture, and many wish they could help nurture their children to escape gender traps. Yet these parents are themselves trapped by the gender structure itself, especially the a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kane, Emily W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "glamour babies" and "little toughies"
  • Wanting a girl, wanting a boy : conceptual building blocks
  • It's in their nature : naturalizers
  • I think a lot of it is us, parents, and society : cultivators
  • We try not to encourage it, but I know it gets in there : refiners
  • You applaud all the other stuff : innovators
  • Surviving in a gendered culture : resisters
  • Conclusion: a better world : dismantling the gender trap
  • Appendix: research methods
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.