Family - Gender Identities

Question 1

Anne Oakley 4

Answer 1

Manipulation
Canalisation
Different Activities
Verbal Appellations

Question 2

What is manipulation? 3

Answer 2

Encouraging gender behaviours
Positive/negative sanctions
e.g. praise boy for climbing tree

Question 3

What is canalisation? 2

Answer 3

channelled into Gendered toys

e.g. truck for boy

Question 4

What is verbal appellations? 3

Answer 4

How parents talk to children
Pet names
e.g. princess for girl

Question 5

What is different activities? 3

Answer 5

Children encouraged by parents to take part in different activities
e.g. girls help mother,
boys have more freedom outdoors

Question 6

Frosh et al 3

Answer 6

Boys talked about their parents
Mum = caring and emotionally closer
dad = distant and detatched

Question 7

Charles

Answer 7

Family life is still gendered.
Men are still seen as the providers.
Women are still viewed as the carers.

Question 8

Seidler

Answer 8

Young males growing up in 1950s new what it meant to be male - likely to do what fathers did

Question 9

Sharpe

Answer 9

Girls had expectations of what they wanted to do with their lives which reflected traditional gender roles