Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood: Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships:a Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction

by Sheldon; Amy

• ISBN13: 9780805899276
• ISBN10: 0805899278
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood. The interconnections between language and gender in three key developmental sociolinguistic contexts are examined: talk between parent and child, talk among friends, and talk between siblings. When children learn to speak a language, they also learn to use it in ways that can reflect, resist, or ignore their culture's norms of acceptable feminine and masculine behavior. The authors of these articles explore the concept of talk as a medium in which both young children and the adults in their world "do" gender. This collection should act as a springboard for more thinking about ways to untangle gender and context, and to show their interconnectedness as well.

Table of Contents

Special Issue: Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood: Conversations in Parent-Child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships
Amy Sheldon
Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood: Conversations in Parent-Child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships	1	(6)
Amy Sheldon
``Why Didn't You Talk to Your Mommy, Honey?'': Parents' and Children's Talk About Talk	7	(20)
Richard Ely
Jean Berko Gleason
Alyssa McCabe
Mothers, Fathers, Daughters, Sons: Gender Differences in Autobiographical Reminiscing	27	(30)
Elaine Reese
Catherine A. Haden
Robyn Fivush
You Can Be the Baby Brother But You Aren't Born Yet: Preschool Girls' Negotiation for Power and Access in Pretend Play	57	(24)
Amy Sheldon
Gender and Mitigation in 4-Year-Olds' Pretend Play Talk With Siblings	81
Ganie B. DeHart