
There Are No Such Things as Gendered Emotions
We still expect children to express emotions in gendered ways. It’s harmful and needs to stop
Pragya Agarwal is a behavioral and data scientist, author of four nonfiction books, a visiting professor of social inequities and injustice at Loughborough University, a fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge University, and a visiting fellow of Black and South Asian history at the University of Oxford. Her latest book is Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions (Canongate, 2022). More at drpragyaagarwal.com and on X: @drpragyaagarwal
There Are No Such Things as Gendered Emotions
We still expect children to express emotions in gendered ways. It’s harmful and needs to stop
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