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Little Women, good wives: is English good for girls? Gill Frith

Little Women, good wives: is English good for girls? Gill Frith. Presented By: Amanda Bunker. Challenging the Sex Roles. Were both sexes given equal treatment? Does the gender of the teacher have anything to do with the subject they teach? “Much of our behaviour is ‘learnt’.”.

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Little Women, good wives: is English good for girls? Gill Frith

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  1. Little Women, good wives: is English good for girls? Gill Frith Presented By: Amanda Bunker

  2. Challenging the Sex Roles • Were both sexes given equal treatment? • Does the gender of the teacher have anything to do with the subject they teach? • “Much of our behaviour is ‘learnt’.” • What is considered a male dominated subject? • What is considered a female dominated subject? • Have you seen kids following the idea that there are certain subjects for male and females at your old high schools?

  3. Stero-types • History has shaped who girls and women are today. • The effects of early childhood. • “Peter does things;Jane watches. Mummy stays in the kitchen and wears and apron. Daddy goes to work and reads a newspaper.”

  4. Passivity vs. Activty • Reading books for pleasure • Poetry • Drawing • Talking quietly Passivity Activity Multiple choice questions Factual reading of books Factual writing Structured grammar work.

  5. Reading between the lines • “Reading is not just a passive activity. We have to learn to ‘read’ with a questioning eye: to ask ourselves: ‘What image of men and women, their behaviourand relationships, does this writer give us?” • Stan Barstow’s “The Desperadoes” • The connection between intuition and emotion within literature. • Fifteen

  6. Poem #1 • It is impossible to breathe in air,Without breathing in toxic pollutants. • It is impossible to ingest nutritious food,Without ingesting chemicals and preservatives.It is impossible to have a loving relationship,Without bumping into a loved one's emotional problems.And it is IMPOSSIBLE not to BREATHE, EAT, and LOVE Identify the Gender Poem #2 Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem -- you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. Can the spice-rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf?

  7. Differences between the Sexes • Boys: Casual, detached, prefer short and practical writing, concise and factual. • Girls: Involved, fluent, thorough, prefer longer and more imaginative pieces, tentative and emotional. • “There may be differences between the sexes, but the differences within the sexes are just as great.”

  8. So, is English good for girls? • Virginia Woolf • Charlotte Bronte • Willa Cather • Emily Dickinsen • Maya Angelou • Jane Austen • Toni Morrison • “Once we understand that language is not a simple tool that there are different ways of using language, we can start to use language, instead of letting language use us. We can play with language, fight it, and experiment with it.”

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