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Alloway, Nola; Gilbert, Pam – Gender and Education, 1997
Examines issues associated with boys and literacy based on Australian research documenting gender differences in literacy performance. Argues that literacy, as it is constructed in school, becomes a domain of knowledge and a set of technologies that run counter to various dominant constructions of masculinity. A corrective approach is offered that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Landrine, Hope; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1988
Examines gender stereotyping and the use of alcohol. Analyzes responses of 70 female and 46 male college students to a social stereotyping study derived from the Bem Social Roles ventory. Finds that expectations regarding beer drinking and getting drunk are aspects of traditional male gender role. (FMW)
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Standards, College Students, Drinking
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Renn, Jennifer A.; Calvert, Sandra L. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993
Examines the relationship between adults' gender-related personality characteristics and memory for gender-stereotyped and counterstereotyped televised information with 80 middle-class undergraduates (half of each gender). Results suggest that gender-aschematic adults recall more counter-stereotypical information than do gender-schematic adults.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Femininity, Higher Education
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Sandberg, David E.; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993
Examines whether feminine or masculine gender role behavior is associated with lower academic achievement in general as well as in mathematics and whether these relationships increase with age in a sample of 333 boys aged 6 to 10 years. Variations are only marginally correlated with school achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Ability
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Sabo, Don – Journal of American College Health, 2000
Outlines the development of men's health studies, situating its development in a general historical context; discussing the study of men's health within the context of critical feminist theories and theories of men and masculinities; outlining and illustrating a relational theory for understanding men's health in an effort to integrate this study…
Descriptors: Aggression, Athletes, Child Rearing, Feminism
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James, Pauline – Gender and Education, 1999
Describes an action research study among preservice teachers in an educational psychology course in which resistance to learning associated with a particular working class masculinity appeared to be overcome. Resistance apparently developed because some activities and content of the preservice program threatened an occupationally constructed…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education, Feminism
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Lobel, Thalma E.; Gruber, Reut; Govrin, Nurit; Mashraki-Pedhatzur, Sharon – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Compared gender-related inferences and judgments of third and fifth graders from Taiwan (a traditional collectivistic culture), and Israel (a less traditional modern culture). Found that Taiwanese children distinguished more than did Israeli children between male targets in stories behaving stereotypically and counterstereotypically. Interpreted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Archer, Louise; Francis, Becky – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
This paper examines the ways in which British Chinese pupils are positioned and represented within the popular/dominant discourse of teachers working in London schools. Drawing on individual interviews from a study conducted with 30 teachers, 80 British Chinese pupils and 30 Chinese parents, we explore some of the racialised, gendered and classed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Sex Stereotypes, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
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Crowley, Vicki – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
In April 2002 Judith Halberstam, academic, cultural critic and author of "Female Masculinity", toured Australia giving public and academic lectures about her recent work on sub-cultures, the Brandon Teena archive, representations of the transgender body and her notion of female masculinity. The interview is introduced through a brief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Masculinity, Sexual Identity
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Smolak, Linda; Munstertieger, Britannie Fairman – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2002
Research often fails to document a gender difference in measures of voice. This is inconsistent with Gilligan's conceptualization of voice as a gendered construct. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate currently available measures of voice, particularly in terms of whether they appear to be assessing the same characteristics in men as…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Psychopathology, Measures (Individuals)
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Robinson, Kerry H. – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
This paper explores heteronormativity and argues for the "queerying" of gender in early childhood education. The author argues, utilising Butler's theory of performativity and heterosexual matrix, that the construction of gender in young children's lives requires an analysis of the normalising practices in which gendered identities are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Sexuality, Social Attitudes
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Weis, Lois – Australian Educational Researcher, 2003
This paper examines the "remaking" of white working class masculinities in the latter quarter of the twentieth century. It draws on ethnographic data gathered at two points in time in order to interrogate the relation of macro-economic and social relations on individual and group identities; to excavate the social psychological relations…
Descriptors: Working Class, Ethnography, Males, Masculinity
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Kocken, P. L.; van Dorst, A. G.; Schaalma, H. – Health Education Research, 2006
A study into the relevance of cultural factors in predicting condom-use intentions among Antillean migrants in the Netherlands is described in this article. The association between the intention to use condoms with a new sexual partner and a perceived taboo on discussing sex, beliefs about sex education and machismo beliefs on gender and power…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Measurement, Foreign Countries
Buckingham, David – 1992
Drawn from a much more extensive research project about children and television, this study examined the social processes through which the meanings of television are established and negotiated. A series of small group interviews with boys aged between 8 and 12 years were conducted. Two series of interviews focused on the cartoon television series…
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
Harry, Joseph – 1983
The role of adolescent sexual behavior in educational attainment has been overlooked. Homosexual and heterosexual men were interviewed to test for a correlation between adolescent sexual activeness and educational attainment, as well as any link between childhood masculine sex roles and early sexual activity. Approximately 1,000 volunteers,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Biological Influences, Educational Attainment
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