Throwing like a girl? Situating gender differences in physicality across game contexts

Childhood

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 475-497

  Evaldsson, Ann Carita ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Games; Gender; Physicality; Situated activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344495418     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568203104006     Document Type: Article

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