Gelman, Susan A.

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. - Boston, Mass. Blackwell Pub. c2004. - vii, 145 p. ill., charts 23 cm. - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development serial no. 275, v. 69 .

Includes bibliographical references.

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


Mother and child
Sex role
Mother-Child Relations