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Peer reviewedWason-Ellam, Linda – Language Arts, 1997
Examines how young girls in a multi-aged primary classroom constructed gendered identities and meanings through interactions with books and televised soap operas that often distort their vision of reality and what it is to live as a female. Discovers that the girls interpreted story to make it fit into their already established ideas about…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Ethnography
