Gender Replay : On Kids, Schools, and Feminism Paperback / softback

Edited by Freeden Blume Oeur, C. J. Pascoe

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Youth series

Paperback / softback

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Description

The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorneâ€™s classic book, Gender PlayBarrie Thorneâ€™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 Thorneâ€™s scholarship into a new and different generation. Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoeâ€™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 Thorneâ€™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 Thorneâ€™s text left off, doing the vital work of applying her teachings to a transformed world and to new configurations of childhood.