Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism (Critical Perspectives on Youth, 10)

The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thornes classic book, Gender Play Barrie Thornes 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 Thornes scholarship into a new and different generation. Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoes 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 Thornes 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 Thornes text left off, doing the vital work of applying her teachings to a transformed world and to new configurations of childhood. Contents Introduction: Playing with Gender Part I Kids as Actors, Studying Kids 1 The Play of Gender in School Life: Reflections on Barrie Thorne’s Classic Book 2 With Love and Respect for Young People: Learning with and from Barrie Thorne in the Ethnography of Childhood 3 From Classrooms to Bathrooms: (Un)Learning How to Do Grounded Ethnography with Kids Part II Racial and Ethnic Borderwork and Play 4 Playing to Resist: Youth Challenging Racial Oppression 5 Learning from Kids: Race and Racism in the Lives of Youth 6 From Gendered Borderwork to Ethnic Boundaries: The Case of Two Norwegian Schools Part III Feminist Praxis 7 Breaking Up the Pavement: Barrie Thorne’s Feminist Sproutings 8 The Legacy of Relationship: Meditations on Mentoring 9 Living Theory: Gender Play and Learning to Live a Life Less Ordinary 10 Teaching Education, Talking Childhood, Troubling Gender: A Roundtable Discussion on Gender Play Part IV Looking Ahead 11 Making Space: Valuation and Gender Inequality in STEM 12 Nordic Gender Play? Being and Doing Gender across Time and Space 13 Changing Youth Worlds: On Prom, Cars, and Other Things 14 When Kids “Play” Politics: Gender Play and Young People’s Activism Acknowledgments About the Contributors About the Editors Index "Critical reflections on Barrie Thorne's 1993 classic study of kids in elementary school, as well as Thorne's larger research, teaching, and mentoring legacy"-- Provided by publisher