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.
Introduction -- Methods and preliminary results -- How children and mothers express gender essentialism -- talk about categories versus individuals (generics vs. non-generics) -- Beyond the individual : discourse patterns and correlational analyses -- General discussion.
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 discussing a picture book that focused on gender.