{"id":25204,"date":"2010-07-10T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25204"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:09:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:09:37","slug":"wanna-be-brides-the-socialization-of-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/10\/wanna-be-brides-the-socialization-of-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna-Be Brides: The Socialization of Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women spend their young and young adult lives dreaming of their wedding day, or so the stereotype goes.\u00a0 Where might girls get the idea that weddings are a particularly important day in a woman&#8217;s life?<\/p>\n<p>SociologicalMe sent in a wedding day toy for girls found at a Pathmark grocery store in Delaware:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/Dream_Bride.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25213\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/Dream_Bride-527x1024.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/Dream_Bride-527x1024.jpg 527w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/Dream_Bride-257x500.jpg 257w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/Dream_Bride.jpg 2004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Mary, who blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyprincessrecovery.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/judging-book-by-its-cover.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Princess Recovery<\/a>, collected these examples of Disney Princess-themed wedding books for little girls:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/16.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25207\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/16-1024x1014.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/23.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25208\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/23-1024x808.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/23-1024x808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/23-500x394.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/23.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/34.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25209\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/34-689x1024.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/34-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/34-336x500.jpg 336w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/34.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>So maybe it isn&#8217;t part of having two XX chromosomes.<\/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>Women spend their young and young adult lives dreaming of their wedding day, or so the stereotype goes.\u00a0 Where might girls get the idea that weddings are a particularly important day in a woman&#8217;s life? SociologicalMe sent in a wedding day toy for girls found at a Pathmark grocery store in Delaware: And Mary, who [&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":[223,55,2099,2088,272,1711,2051],"class_list":["post-25204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-toysgames","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204","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=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59954,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions\/59954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}