Oppositional positions: Children's construction of gender in talk and role plays based on adult occupation

Educational Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-43

  Francis, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constructions; Discourse; Gender; Oppositional; Resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038979299     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188980400103     Document Type: Article

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