{"id":31066,"date":"2010-12-23T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=31066"},"modified":"2011-11-21T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:35:30","slug":"gender-in-toy-catalogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/23\/gender-in-toy-catalogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender in Toy Catalogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica B. sent in a link to a really great post over at Pigtail Pals<\/a>. The author, Melissa, analyzed the contents of a number of holiday-season catalogs advertising toys. She tabulated how many girls and boys appear in each, how many are shown doing gender-stereotypical vs. non-stereotypical activities, and the main themes of the toys.<\/p>\n

Here are the results for Toys ‘R’ Us:<\/p>\n

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Images from the catalog:<\/p>\n

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Wal-Mart:<\/p>\n

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Target:<\/p>\n

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It’s particularly striking to me how few images there are of girls and boys playing together, a predictable outcome, I suppose, of our insistence that boys and girls need different toys — since, if must play with different toys, they won’t be playing together.<\/p>\n

Melissa discusses the specific images on several pages of the catalogs — check her full post out for more commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica B. sent in a link to a really great post over at Pigtail Pals. The author, Melissa, analyzed the contents of a number of holiday-season catalogs advertising toys. She tabulated how many girls and boys appear in each, how many are shown doing gender-stereotypical vs. non-stereotypical activities, and the main themes of the toys. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,373,55,2099,2096,2087,1711],"class_list":["post-31066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-toysgames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31391,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066\/revisions\/31391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}