A stunning achievement... Thorne transforms our ability to see gender in social life.— Nancy J. Chodorow, author of Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory
Thorne sees the ritualized interactions of boys and girls as power play and makes it her central issue. She looks across the fun and games as a cycle of domination and subservience... [She] re-examines the gender mystique as it develops through the grades, urging us to understand it as a social process, amenable to change.— The New York Book Times Review
This is a beautifully observed, as well as deeply reflective book... Pathbreaking research is combined with vivid and enjoyable writing.— Bob Connell, author of Gender and Power
Destined to be a classic... a wonderful text - beautifully inflected, reflexive, responsive to diversity and differences, and grounded in careful ethnographic work.— Laurel Richardson, author of The Dynamics of Sex and Gender