The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett
Abstract
This book tackles 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. This text unmakes the pseudoscientific rationale for this argument, stressing the individ ... More
Keywords: gender, learning styles, brain development, motivation, parents, educators, stereotypes, classroom, children
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231151634 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231151634.001.0001 |
