TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richardson,Scott
TI  - Gender Lessons: a Patriarchy, Sextyping & Schools 
T2  - Teaching Gender
SN  - 9789463000314
AV  - LC212.9 
U1  - 370.81 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - Brill | Sense
KW  - Gender identity in education
KW  - Sex differences in education
KW  - Sex discrimination in education
N1  - Preliminary Material -- Dear Mrs. Baldwin, I’m Concerned -- Getting into It -- Josie Fisk Elementary School -- J. R. Randolph Middle School -- Central High School -- Deinstitutionalization, Now! -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Bibliography
N2  - Public 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. Cover art: Emily A. Pellini
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-031-4
ER  -