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Gender Play: Boys and Girls in School
Barrie Thorne’s book is very insightful and detailed. It is an excellent source for learning more about children’s experience of gender. ... She believes that children learn how they are expected to act once they are assigned a particular gender. ... They would either get into two separate lines which were divided by gender or one line which had one gender in the front, a space, and then the other gender. ... Activities, spaces, and equipment were heavily gender typed. ... Girls usually stayed on the jungle gym or cement area to play foursquare, jump rope, or hopscotch. ... Much like the behavior in the cafeteria, boys and girls did not pass the gender border for fear of being teased by the other students. ... Thorne points out that organizing boys and girls into separate teams and giving them names with derogatory gender meaning set up a situation that invited gender antagonism. ... During chasing games, gender terms often override personal identities. ... Invasions occur when one gender invades the other’s space. ... The term sissy means weakness or boys who either like to play with girls or do activities that have been coined girls games. ... Jessie was the only girl that regularly crossed the gender border and was accepted by both boys and girls. Jessie seemed to be comfortable in every setting with either gender. She would jump rope with the girls and then play football with the boys on the same day. ... For example, Thorne feels that teachers should use criteria other than gender or ethnicity to organize students.
Approximate Word count = 1478
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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