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Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
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By Barrie Thorne, Raewyn Connell (Introduction), Michael A. Messner (Introduction), C.J. Pascoe (Afterword)
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When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard? What can playful teasing and ritualized games like “cooties” and “chase and kiss” teach us about how children perform gendered identities? An...