Girls Can Be Bull Riders, Too!: Supporting Children's Understanding of Gender Roles through Children's Literature

Young Children

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 79-X

  Wellhousen, Karyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

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