Corsaro. Chapter 1: Social Theories of Childhood (pp. 2-27)
Reader. Thorne, Barrie. 1987. "Revisioning Women and Social Change: Where are the Children?," Gender & Society, vol 1, no. 1 (March): 85-109.

Aug 27 Images of Children
Aug 29 Linkages between Women & Children

Reading Questions:

• How may children's experiences be relevant to sociology and feminism?

• How are women's experiences related to children's experiences? How is the subject position of women similar to that of children?

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