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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, Emily W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : New York University, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex differences.
Parenthood.
Girls > Psychology.
Child rearing.
Boys > Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Parent & Adult Child.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Child Abuse.
Filles > Psychologie.
Garçons > Psychologie.
Differences entre sexes.
Éducation des enfants.
Condition de parents.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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