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 &q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivers, Caryl (-)
Other Authors: Barnett, Rosalind C.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press c2011.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798279206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Brains in pink and blue?
  • More pink and blue
  • Math wars
  • Word play
  • Toy choice
  • The more aggressive sex?
  • Caring
  • The ideal classroom
  • Single-sex education, pros and cons
  • Conclusion.