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Gender, Multiplicity, and Voice by Maxine Greene - 1993Gender, we now realize, must be understood as a social
construct or a cultural construct, referring to the meanings attached to
the biological division of the sexes. More simply, gender identifies the
implications of what it means in different contexts to be born a girl or
a boy. It has to do with the mannerisms taught or adopted, and the expectations
internalized, the modes of perceiving others and being
perceived. View Full Text in PDF FormatThis article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 92, No. 1. |
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- Maxine Greene
Teachers College, Columbia University MAXINE GREENE is Professor in the Division of Philosophy, the Social Sciences, and
Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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