Gender Play

BARRIE THORNE is a professor emerita of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a former Vice President of the American Sociological Association and served for ten years as the US editor of the journal Childhood. In 2022, she received the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award for lifelong achievement in opening sociology to the role of women in society. Her many books include Feminist Sociology and Rethinking the Family.  MICHAEL A. MESSNER is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women, King of the Wild Suburb:  A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Guns, and No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (Rutgers University Press). RAEWYN CONNELL is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of Sydney and the author of fifteen books, including Making the Difference, Gender and Power, and Masculinities.  CJ PASCOE is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon where she teaches courses on sexuality, education, social psychology, and inequality. She is the author of Nice is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High.

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Raewyn Connell and Michael A. Messner
1 Children and Gender
2 Learning from Kids
3 Boys and Girls Together . . . But Mostly Apart
4 Gender Separation: Why and How
5 Creating a Sense of “Opposite Sides”
6 Do Girls and Boys Have Different Cultures?
7 Crossing the Gender Divide
8 Lip Gloss and “Goin’ With”: Becoming Teens
9 Lessons for Adults
Afterword by C. J. Pascoe
Notes
References
Index