Mother-child conversations about gender : understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs / Susan A. Gelman, Marianne G. Taylor, Simone P. Nguyen ; with commentary by Campbell Leaper, Rebecca S. Bigler.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 69, no. 1.Publication details: Boston : Blackwell Publishing, 2004.Description: vii, 145 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cmSubject(s): Summary: This looks at how mothers and young children talk about gender, to discover the potential role of language in fostering gender stereotypes. Mothers and their sons/daughters, who were 2-1/2, 4-1/2, or 6-1/2 years of age, were videotaped discusing a picture book that focused on gender.
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This looks at how mothers and young children talk about gender, to discover the potential role of language in fostering gender stereotypes. Mothers and their sons/daughters, who were 2-1/2, 4-1/2, or 6-1/2 years of age, were videotaped discusing a picture book that focused on gender.

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