Frogs and snails and feminist tales : preschool children and gender

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Frogs and snails and feminist tales : preschool children and gender

Bronwyn Davies

Allen & Unwin, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 144-149

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

How and why do children become masculine or feminine? Because there is some ordained biological bipolar division of the world? Because others make them so through "socialization"? Or because the social structure requires them to "take up" identities as either male or female since no other identity is recognizable? Through listening to children themselves, this book explores what is happening - socially, emotionally and physically - as children "take themselves up" (assume identities) within the constraints of interactive (and narrative) structures. The book is directed towards students of gender studies and child development.

Table of Contents

  • Becoming male or female
  • Researching with children
  • The sense children make of feminist stories
  • Female power
  • Male power
  • Moving beyond the male--female dualism
  • Conclusion

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