Gender Replay

"Prior to Barrie Thorne, sociologists viewed children as little more than future adults, not worthy of serious attention. She taught us how to treat children as full human beings. Gender Replay honors the creativity of children and the scholar who started it all." (Christine L. Williams, author of Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists) "Through both her pioneering work in childhood studies and her decades of thoughtful mentorship, Barrie Thorne defined the genre of feminist sociology. She taught us that adulthood and expertise are ideological constructs, that learning is living, that play is an engagement with possibility, and that social change is made possible, not by oppositionality, but by mutuality in opposition. This book is a cogent, illuminating, and loving tribute to Barrie's work, intellectual legacy, and the generations of feminist sociology she inspired. After decades of reflection on Gender Play and its afterlives, I still found novel lessons here, new ideas, and exciting new insights on old ones." (Tey Meadow, author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century) "For those of us who have had the privilege of knowing the feminist sociologist Barrie Thorne, Gender Replay reads like a love letter to her legacy of mentoring, her marvelous ethnographic eye, her moral compass, her transformational work on the sociology of childhoods, and her ability to build community. And for those who do not know Barrie Thorne, the chapters of Gender Replay model for all how to do responsible ethnography, how to mentor with love and creativity, and how to persist with the questions that enable transformational scholarship. In both cases, the book is an absolute delight." (Raka Ray, co-author of The Social Life of Gender) "Pay attention to how children play. This is the significance of Barrie Thorne's celebrated Gender Play (1993), a feminist ethnography of children playing with gender in school...Thorne provides thick descriptions of how children come together and come apart by gender differences when they play and do other things in school." - Stephanie D. Mccall (Gender and Society) "This book offers a fascinating exploration of Barrie Thorne's seminal work Gender Play (1993), breathing new life into her findings about how children shape, challenge, and reflect gender norms during play." (CHOICE) "Gender Replay is a collective success among the many authors who contributed to it ... This volume would make valuable contributions to courses in the sociology of childhood, sex and gender, self and society, social theory, and qualitative research methods." (Contemporary Sociology)