The animal = male hypothesis: Children's and adults' beliefs about the sex of non-sex-specific stuffed animals

Sex Roles

Volumn 48, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 471-482

  Lambdin, Jennifer R ^b   Greer, Kristen M ^b   Jibotian, Kari Selby ^b   Wood, Kelly Rice ^a,b   Hamilton, Mykol C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b CENTRE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal = male hypothesis; Language and gender; People = male hypothesis; Sex bias in language; Sexist language

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037689166     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023567010708     Document Type: Article

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