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CAN GIRLS AND BOYS FEEL AND DO WHAT THEY WANT?
The Construction of Gender Identity in History, Pedagogy, and Sociology
edited by Elisa Rossi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
In 1973, the pedagogist Elena Gianini Belotti, based on her long and in-depth educational experience with parents and preschool children, asserted in her groundbreaking work titled Little girls that the traditional differences in character and behavior between males and females were not primarily due to innate or “natural” factors. Rather, they are depend on social and cultural conditioning, stereotypes, and prejudices that individuals experience during their development and upbringing: «among these also the “myth” of “natural” male superiority as opposed to the equally “innate” female inferiority»….