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26%OFFCaryl Rivers - The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children - 9780231151634 - V9780231151634
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The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

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Description for The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JFM; JFSJ1; JKSN; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
324g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151634
SKU
V9780231151634
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Caryl Rivers
Caryl Rivers is professor of journalism at the College of Communication at Boston University. A nationally known author and journalist, she was awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished work in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. Her articles have appeared in the The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Saturday Review, Ms., Mother Jones, McCall's, Glamour, ... Read more

Reviews for The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
BRAVO! This is a much needed, informative, and engaging book. The authors, Rosalind C. Barnett (a highly respected research psychologist) and Caryl Rivers (a skilled journalist), take the reader on a critical and clarifying tour of claims about categorical, biologically-based sex differences used to justify the move towards more publicly funded single-sex schooling. This book is a significant contribution to ... Read more

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