{"id":23828,"date":"2010-05-29T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23828"},"modified":"2013-12-15T02:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:51:21","slug":"gendered-beach-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/29\/gendered-beach-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Beach Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lordismo.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lordo<\/a> found the towels below for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginarium.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imaginarium<\/a> (a toy store specializing in smart toys)\u00a0 in Spain.\u00a0\u00a0 One towel, pictured with a boy, doubles as a cape; the other, pictured with a girl, allows her to dress up like a mermaid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/29\/gendered-beach-play\/picture1-55\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23831\" title=\"Picture1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Picture12.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Picture12.jpg 626w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Picture12-500x272.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another example in which children are encouraged to be girls and boys instead of just children and being a boy means doing something active (being a superhero) and being a girl means adopting an attractive and exotic appearance.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lordo found the towels below for sale at Imaginarium (a toy store specializing in smart toys)\u00a0 in Spain.\u00a0\u00a0 One towel, pictured with a boy, doubles as a cape; the other, pictured with a girl, allows her to dress up like a mermaid. This is another example in which children are encouraged to be girls and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60189,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions\/60189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}