The Gender Trap : : Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls / / Emily W. Kane.
From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. “Glamour Babies” and “Little Toughies”
- One. Wanting a Girl, Wanting a Boy
- Two. “It’s in Their Nature”
- 3. “I Think a Lot of It Is Us, Parents and Society”
- 4. “We Try Not to Encourage It, but I Know It Gets in There”
- 5. “You Applaud All the Other Stuff”
- 6. “Surviving in a Gendered Culture”
- Conclusion. “A Better World”
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author