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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kane, Emily W. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : New York University, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.