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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth P Rahilly |
ISBN: | 9781479820559 1479820555 9781479817153 1479817155 |
OCLC Number: | 1126550718 |
Description: | 233 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | "She's just who she is" : identifying the transgender child -- "Our world has been rocked" : gender and sexuality -- "Picking the 'other box'" : troubling the (non)binary -- "A regular, normal childhood" : privacy, protection, and medical interventions. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Rahilly. |
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This insightful book explores the contours of an emerging style of child-centered parenting and the corresponding conceptual work performed by parents as they confront new possibilities relating to gender and identity ... This book engages with an impressive range of questions of theoretical value to sociologists and it will likely find an eager audience among those who study gender, childhood, family, and parenting. * Gender & Society * Elizabeth Rahilly provides a unique and timely analysis of how parents of transgender and gender nonconforming children understand their children's gender...This book is easy to read and informative. This book could be of interest to scholars working on issues about gender, sexuality, and the family. For scholars of the family, this study is an excellent example of child-drive, child-centered parenting that fits into a growing body of literature on intensive mothering * Social Forces * Read more...

