TY - BOOK AU - Gelman,Susan A. AU - Gelman,Susan A. AU - Bigler,Rebecca S. AU - Leaper,Campbell AU - Nguyen,Simone P. AU - Taylor,Marianne G. TI - Mother-child conversations about gender: understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs T2 - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development PY - 2004/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Mother and child KW - Local KW - Sex role KW - Mother-Child Relations N1 - 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 ER -