Controversial Issues

5.3: Feminist parenting

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Controversial Issues
5.3: Feminist parenting

Bem (1983) suggested that “feminist parents who wish to raise gender-aschematic children in a gender-schematic world are like any parents who wish to inculcate their children with beliefs and values that deviate from those of the dominant culture” (p. 610). More specifically, Bem suggested strategies for parents who want to raise gender-aschematic children, including: (1) enable children to learn about the differences between the sexes without introducing societal or cultural associations of being female or male, and (2) provide alternate “subversive” schema that children can use to interpret societal sex-linked associations (p. 610).

Can children be raised to learn about sex differences at a young age without being introduced to societal or cultural expectations of the sexes?
Based on what you have read to this point in the chapter, what are some of the cultural factors that parents would have to limit exposure to in order to develop gender-aschematic children?
If parents can raise gender-aschematic children, should they?