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100			_aRichardson, Scott
245			_aGender Lessons: Patriarchy, Sextyping & Schools
260			_c2015 _bSense Publishers _aRotterdam
300			_axx; 219p. _b9x6 _cpb
440			_aTeaching Gender Series
520			_aPublic schools in early America were designed to ensure the reproduction of Eurocentric social values. It could be argued that little has changed. Gender Lessons takes an in-depth look at how schools institutionalize gender-how kids are taught the rules and expectations of performing masculinity and femininity. This work provides extensive examples of how elementary, middle, and high schools: sextype; defend and preserve patriarchy; weave gendered expectations in all things school related; promote inequity; and limit their students' potential by explicitly and implicitly teaching that they must fit into only one of two boxes..."girl" or "boy." Richardson argues that schools-a powerful and wide reaching publicly funded mechanism-should be engaged in social (re)imagination that disbands the antiquated girl/boy and feminine/masculine binary so that kids might have a chance at being themselves. This book is sure to provoke conversation in courses and professional communities interested in education, gender studies, social work, sociology, counseling and guidance.
546			_aENG
650			_aSex discrimination in education
650			_aSex role Study and teaching
650			_aWomen Education
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