And socializing influences, ironically well illustrated by the gender-stereotyped clothes and toys on magazine covers that make claims about biological programming come from many directions. Children, according to one strand of this perspective, are socialized into existing gender arrangements. “While many still see gender as the expression of natural difference, the women’s movement of the 1970s and 1980s launched a powerful alternative perspective: notions of femininity and masculinity, the gender divisions one sees on school playgrounds, structures of male dominance, the idea of gender itself – all are social constructions. Some key quotes collected throughout the book that support my project: Thorne is a professor for the Study of Women and Men in Society at the University of Southern California. Personally I read the book from start to finish and found it fascinating due to the real-life observations and experiences that Thorne puts across. Full of ethnographic study, this book explores all areas of gender in schools from early gender separation to lessons for adults when addressing gender in children. Gender Play by Barrie Thorne explores gender in children in a way that hadn’t been covered much at the time (1993). Gender Play – Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne
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