The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett
eISBN: 978-0-231-52530-5
2011 (240 pages 17 illus.)
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(pages 1-240)
Front Matter
(pages 1-6)
Table of Contents
(pages 7-10)
1 INTRODUCTION
(pages 11-20)
2 BRAINS IN PINK AND BLUE?
(pages 21-32)
3 MORE PINK AND BLUE
(pages 33-52)
4 MATH WARS
(pages 53-84)
5 WORD PLAY
(pages 85-100)
6 TOY CHOICE
(pages 101-114)
7 THE MORE AGGRESSIVE SEX?
(pages 115-136)
8 CARING
(pages 137-152)
9 THE IDEAL CLASSROOM
(pages 153-172)
10 SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION, PROS AND CONS
(pages 173-192)
11 CONCLUSION
(pages 193-206)
Notes
(pages 207-232)
Index
(pages 233-240)
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The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett are widely acclaimed for their analyses of women, men, and society. In The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development, motivation, cognitive and spatial abilities, and “natural” inclinations of girls and boys are so fundamentally different, they require unique styles of parenting and education.
Ignoring the science that challenges these claims, those who promote such theories make millions while frightening parents and educators into enforcing old stereotypes and reviving unhealthy attitudes in the classroom. Rivers and Barnett unmake the pseudoscientific rationale for this argument, stressing the individuality of each child and the specialness of his or her talents and desires. They recognize that in our culture, girls and boys encounter different stimuli and experiences, yet encouraging children to venture outside their comfort zones helps them realize a multifaceted character. Educating parents, teachers, and general readers in the true nature of the gender game, Rivers and Barnett enable future generations to transform if not transcend the parameters of sexual difference.
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The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Author(s):
Rivers, Caryl; Barnett, Rosalind C.
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