How do kids get gender? (Intro)
Channel: Debra McDougall
Date: 2015-03-30

Introduction to a lecture given online for Anth1001 (Being Human) at The University of Western Australia on 5 May 2014. Students were asked to prepare for the week by reading 

1- Excerpt from B. Schiefflin, Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluki children (NY: Cambridge, 1990)

2- An interview with historian Jo B. Paoletti discussing her book Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls from the Boys in America (Indiana, 2012): http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?no-ist. 

3- Editorial by K Cochrane The fightback against gendered toys, The Guardian, 23 April 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/22/gendered-toys-stereotypes-boy-girl-segregation-equality?CMP=ema_632