Boys and Girls at Play: The Development of Sex Roles

by Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher and Lynn Hickey Schultz

A fresh and provocative approach to the ongoing nature/nurture, How shall we shape the playspace? debate, this persuasive and controversial book illustrates and analyzes, in colorful detail, children's developing perceptions of their own-and the other sex's-gender identity. The authors conclude that efforts to modify traditional sexual stereotypes might more effectively be directed toward a later stage of development than that of the preschooler,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897890558
• ISBN13: 9780897890557
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.