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Author Gelman, Susan A.

Title 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.

Publication Info. Boston : Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ1075 .G45 2004    Available  ---
Description vii, 145 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm.
Series Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; serial no. 275, v. 69, no. 1
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 69, no. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
Subject Mother and child.
Mother and child.
Gender identity.
Gender identity.
Sex role.
Sex role.
Women in development.
Women in development.
Socialization.
Socialization.
Gender identity.
Gender roles.