Examines how young girls in a multi-aged primary classroom constructed gendered identities and meanings through interactions with booksand televised soap operas that often distort their vision of reality and what it is to live as a female. Discovers that the girls interpreted story to make it fit into their already established ideas about appropriate behavior for females.
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Linda Wasson-Ellam (1997) studied this question.