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Summary Of Barbie Girls Vs Sea Monsters By Michael Messner

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n his article “Barbie Girls Versus Sea Monsters”, author Michael Messner examines a highly salient gendered moment of group life among four-and five-year-old children at his son’s soccer opening ceremony, where gender boundaries were activated and enforced in ways that constructed an apparently “natural” categorial difference between the girls and the boys. Messner employs a multilevel analytical framework, from an interactionist perspective, to explore how.. 1. Children “Do gender” at the level of the interaction or performance(interactional level). Messner expands on this by discussing how the children and the parents interactively performed gender in a way that construct a seemingly natural boundary between the two separate worlds of the girls and boys. His son’s team, the “Sea Monsters” consists of a group of 4-5 year old boys, wearing blue and green uniforms. The girls soccer team, “The Barbie Girls”, wear green and white colors, chanting and singing proudly …show more content…

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