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The Gender Trap: Parents And The Pitfalls Of Raising Boys And Girls, Mardi Schmeichel
The Gender Trap: Parents And The Pitfalls Of Raising Boys And Girls, Mardi Schmeichel
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
Book review
The book The Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls is an example of the kind of nuanced research that works toward unraveling the complexities of gender as expressed in individual lives as well as larger societal patterns that contribute to problematic assumptions about who girls and boys and women and men must be. Sociologist Emily Kane focuses specifically on the “gender trap” in parenting, which she defines as “a set of expectations and structures that inhibit social change and stall many parents’ best intentions for loosening the limits that gender can impose on …