FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Femininity, Masculinity, Gender Role
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Parents" attitudes and expectations about children"s cross-gender behaviour. It concerns the different status levels associated with masculine and feminine roles. Parents fear that feminine boys will grow up to be either gay or transsexual. Martin (1990) f ound that concerns about future outcomes account for more negative attitudes toward cross- gender boys. Anthill (1987) found that parents believe that cross- gender play in boys, more than in girls, is an indicator of later samegender sexual behavior: the current study attempts to replicate martin"s (1990) earlier study. However, the participants in the current study are different from the participants in martin"s (1990) study. Martin used college students while this study examined finnish parents. This meant that people whose perceptions of children"s gender roles had children of their own. Method: the researchers state that the qualitative or demographic characteristics of the participants closely resembled those of the population of the city of turku, finland, in general (p. 251).
