Boys Don’t Play with Dolls: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Talk during Picture Book Reading

Parenting

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-161

  Endendijk, Joyce J ^b   Groeneveld, Marleen G ^b   Van der Pol, Lotte D ^b   Van Berkel, Sheila R ^b   Hallers Haalboom, Elizabeth T ^b   Mesman, Judi ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b  

^a Leiden University ^*  (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84920083435     PISSN: 15295192     EISSN: 15327922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2014.972753     Document Type: Article

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