Gender play : girls and boys in school / Barrie Thorne.

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You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with girls, the boys play only with boys. Why? And what do the kids 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 elementa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thorne, Barrie
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Subjects:	United States. USA. Electronic books. Sex differences in education > United States.
Genre:	Electronic books.
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Physical Description:	xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Children and gender
Learning from kids
Boys and girls together ... but mostly apart
Gender separation: why and how
Creating a sense of "opposite sides"
Do girls and boys have different cultures?
Crossing the gender divide
Lip gloss and "goin' with": becoming teens
Lessons for adults.