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The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne’s
classic book, Gender Play Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play was a
landmark study of the social worlds of primary school children that
sparked a paradigm shift in our understanding of how kids and the
adults around them contest and reinforce gender boundaries. Thirty
years later, Gender Replay celebrates and reflects on this classic,
extending Thorne’s scholarship into a new and different
generation. Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe’s new volume
brings together many of the foremost scholars on youth from an
array of disciplines, including sociology, childhood studies,
education, gender studies, and communication studies. Together,
these scholars reflect on many contemporary issues that were not
covered in Thorne’s original text, exploring new dimensions of
schooling, the sociology of gender, social media, and feminist
theory. Over fourteen essays, the authors touch on topics such as
youth resistance in the Trump era; girls and technology; the use of
play to challenge oppressive racial regimes; youth activism against
climate change; the importance of taking kids seriously as social
actors; and mentoring as a form of feminist praxis. Gender Replay
picks up where Thorne’s text left off, doing the vital work of
applying her teachings to a transformed world and to new
configurations of childhood.
The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne’s
classic book, Gender Play Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play was a
landmark study of the social worlds of primary school children that
sparked a paradigm shift in our understanding of how kids and the
adults around them contest and reinforce gender boundaries. Thirty
years later, Gender Replay celebrates and reflects on this classic,
extending Thorne’s scholarship into a new and different
generation. Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe’s new volume
brings together many of the foremost scholars on youth from an
array of disciplines, including sociology, childhood studies,
education, gender studies, and communication studies. Together,
these scholars reflect on many contemporary issues that were not
covered in Thorne’s original text, exploring new dimensions of
schooling, the sociology of gender, social media, and feminist
theory. Over fourteen essays, the authors touch on topics such as
youth resistance in the Trump era; girls and technology; the use of
play to challenge oppressive racial regimes; youth activism against
climate change; the importance of taking kids seriously as social
actors; and mentoring as a form of feminist praxis. Gender Replay
picks up where Thorne’s text left off, doing the vital work of
applying her teachings to a transformed world and to new
configurations of childhood.
Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society is a new anthology that
provides a fresh and comprehensive introduction to the field of
critical masculinity studies. Grounded in the theories of
masculinities with explicit connections between various theoretical
perspectives and the readings, this book examines unique domains,
such as the Presidency or men's responses to feminism. Through the
book's emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives and experiences,
readers will find new and provocative takes on masculinity today,
such as nerd masculinity, female masculinity, misogyny through
social media, feminism and men, and men's intimate relationships
with other men.
How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are
transforming African American manhood While single-sex public
schools face much criticism, many Black communities see in them a
great promise: that they can remedy a crisis for their young men.
Black Boys Apart reveals triumphs, hope, and heartbreak at two
all-male schools, a public high school and a charter high school,
drawing on Freeden Blume Oeur's ethnographic work. We meet young
men who felt their schools empowered and emasculated them, parents
who were frustrated with co-ed schools, teachers who helped pave
the road to college, and administrators who saw in Black male
academies the advantages of privatizing education. While the two
schools have distinctive histories and ultimately charted different
paths, they were both shaped by the convergence of neoliberal
ideologies and a politics of Black respectability. As Blume Oeur
reveals, all-boys education is less a school reform initiative and
instead joins a legacy of efforts to reform Black manhood during
periods of stark racial inequality. Black male academies join
long-standing attempts to achieve racial uplift in Black
communities, but in ways that elevate exceptional young men and
aggravate divisions within those communities. Black Boys Apart
shows all-boys schools to be an odd mix of democratic empowerment
and market imperatives, racial segregation and intentional sex
separation, strict discipline and loving care. Challenging
narratives that endorse these schools for nurturing individual
resilience in young Black men, this perceptive and penetrating
ethnography argues for a holistic approach in which Black
communities and their allies promote a collective resilience.
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