Mother-child conversations about gender
Subtitle: understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs
By: Susan A. Gelman, Marianne G. Taylor, Simone P. Nguyen ; with commentary by Campbell Leaper, Rebecca S. Bigler.
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.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Mother and child.; Gender identity.; Sex role.; Women in development.; Socialization.; Gender Identity.; Mother-Child Relations.; Socialization.; Women.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of 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.