Annotated Bibliography

Dreger, Alice."Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood: Inconclusive Advice to Parents." Hastings Center Report. 26-29. Hastings Center, 2009. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Apr. 2011.

·         This author writes about how to help parents with kids who have GID (Gender Identity Disorder). This article shows how parents may identify their child with GID. Also it shows how it a child may act at an early age that may show signs of being gay, lesbian or transgendered. This is a creditable source which the research was done by the author studying many psychologists printed works.

Freeman, Nancy. "Preschoolers’ Perceptions of Gender Appropriate Toys and their Parents’ Beliefs About Genderized Behaviors: Miscommunication, Mixed Messages, or Hidden Truths?." Early Childhood Education Journal 34.5 (2007): 357-366. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.

·         This talks about how parent’s reactions may cause children to gain that gender stereotype. Children pick from toys and parent’s actions show a “hidden message” that kids pick up that parents didn’t know they portrayed. This was a studied that was done and is a written journal that was published. 

Good, Jessica J., Julie A. Woodzicka, and Lylan C. Wingfield. "The Effects of Gender Stereotypic and Counter-Stereotypic Textbook Images on Science Performance." Journal of Social Psychology 150.2 (2010): 132-147. Academic Search Premier.Web. 27 Apr. 2011

·         This article is about how education between female and male students gives that stereotypical view. It talks about how education factors in with stereotyping. It also gives information on how as a child becomes an adult’s things that influence there thinking also comes from TV. This article was published in the journal social psychology and much research was done.  

Ilene, Lelchuk. "When is it OK for boys to be girls, and girls to be boys? / Many kids want to look and act like the other sex. For some, it's a phase; for others, it's not. Parents and schools are adjusting." San Francisco Chronicle (CA) n.d.: Newspaper Source. Web. 26 Apr. 2011.

·         This article is about how children want to act more like the opposite sex. Also schools are now learning to accommodate kids at an early age with this gender identity. This source comes from a published article in the San Francisco chronicle.

                                                                                                            

J. Bruce Morton, et al. "The development of spontaneous gender stereotyping in childhood: relations to stereotype knowledge and stereotype flexibility." Developmental Science 13.2 (2010): 298-306. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Apr. 2011.

·         This is a study done on children ages 5-11 to see if they develop stereotype as they grow older. They show images to the children asking them if the imagine is a boy or girl thing. They also give children toys that are considering either a boy or girl toy. This article is from a database and is published in developmental science and is research from the psychology department.

Ya-Lun, Tsao. "Gender Issues in Young Children’s Literature." Reading Improvement 45.3 (2008): 108-114. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Apr. 2011.

·         This paper talks about how children’s literature portrays imagines of stereotypical actions of male and female characters. This is a situation where it shows girls are showed as helpless and needs to be saved by a male character. Is showing these imagines at a young age to children show that children are already taken on that characters role. For kids who don’t take on that stereotype role is more out casted? This source came from a database and was published by someone from the University of Pennsylvania.