"No way my boys are going to be like that!": Parents' responses to children's gender nonconformity

Gender and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-176

  Kane, Emily W ^a,b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Bates College ^*

Author keywords

Children; Doing gender; Family; Parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644630323     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243205284276     Document Type: Article

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