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Last November Titles: In Girls and Boys: The. Limits of Nonsexist Child Rearing (Scribner’s, $12.95), Sara Bonnett Stein argues that “The bold experiment to raise nonsexist children is not working.” Children, she holds, possess an inborn sex orientation that parental and social pressures can do very little to alter. “. . . We really do not know,” she warns, “the outcome of child-rearing experiments that grew from the early years of feminism.”