Identification with the Father and Sex-Role Development of the Daughter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4393635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred B Heilbrun (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411 |
| Publication date | 1976-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Family Coordinator (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-7214 • E-ISSN: 2325-5501 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/582855 |
| OpenAlex | W255237783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
There was a time, so I am led to believe, when it seemed a reasonably simple matter to understand the contribution of parental identification to the sex-role development of the child. Taken from a common-sense view, masculinity in the son was the natural consequence of the boy's selection of the father as an identification model and his emulating the strong, instrumental qualities required of adult males in our society. Images of the boy and his father engaging in rough-and-tumble play, sharing sports activities, hammering boisterously alongside one another on a home project, or the boy merely watching as his father both dominated and protected his family offered reasons enough why sons grew up with a masculine orientation. Similarly, the daughter's tracking of her mother around the kitchen, sewing happily next to her, and warmly nurturing her doll while mother tended a younger sibling were viewed as occasions when the mother's warmth and concern for others could be learned and gradually woven into a stable, feminine orientation. Common-sense assumptions such as these were encouraged in a way by an influential developmental view of yesterday. Psychoanalytic formulations would have had us believe that somewhere around 5 to 6 years of age the child faces a crisis of competition with the same-sex parent for
Biology · Daughter · Developmental psychology · Evolutionary biology · Genealogy · Identification (biology) · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1979 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |