While Documenting Parents' Nervousness About Their Son's Performance of Femininity

question 9

Multiple Choice

While documenting parents' nervousness about their son's performance of femininity, the sociologist Emily Kane found that

• A) parents discouraged their boys from playing with girls for more than one hour a day.
• B) parents encouraged their sons to embrace femininity by doing things like painting their fingernails.
• C) as masculine activities are valued, parents endorsed their girl's interests in "icons of masculinity" like trucks.
• D) parents were deeply troubled by their girls' gender-nonconforming behavior.

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