The ethnographic research of Karin Martin (1998) shows how children are molded into gender roles in subtle and overt ways by the school system. I thought these were such interesting theories. If one wanted to ensure a person was subservient, one might make this person feel her body was inherently weaker, in a word, inferior. This applied to an entire class of people could explain the social control imposed on women by way of the encouragement to act “ladylike” and rewarding behavior that is “gender appropriate” in schools. As Martin puts it, “Bodies that clearly delineate gender status facilitate the Continue reading “Insight: Karin Martin (1998) “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools” “ →