Part 1 Making the texts: the cultural construction of femininity - gender relations, schooling and popular culture theorizing culture gender and culture schooling and the reproduction of gender relations the pedagogical construction of femininity - textuality and the classroom sexism in the classroom teaching about texts working with texts. Part 2 Reading the texts: days of their lives - watching the soaps never-ending stories girls and television girls watch the soaps soap operas and femininity romancing the girl - fiction, fantasy and femininity the popularity of romance fiction fashioning the feminine through romance fiction the world of Dolly fiction reading the romance dear diary - girls and writing girls' writing - boys' writing writing tasks and topics - the potential for misogyny writing against the grain - resistance and re-writing. Part 3 Rewriting the texts feminist classroom practice - the possibilities for challenge and change the curriculum and change subjectivity and change refashioning the feminine.
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Sutherland et al. (1992) studied this question.