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Gender Play

Paperback • 1993 • English

Gender Play: Girls and boys in school

By Barrie Thorne

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About the book

You see it in every school playground: the girls play only with girls, the boys play only with boys. Why? And what do children themselves think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for thinking about children and gender, "Gender Play" develops fresh insights into the everyday social worlds of kids in schools. Barrie Thorne draws on her daily observations in the classroom and in the playground to show how children construct and experience gender in school. She looks in detail at the "pl...Show more

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9780335191239

Published year

1993

Language

English

Original title

Gender Play

Format

Paperback

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