No Sissy Boys Here: A Content Analysis of the Representation of Masculinity in Elementary School Reading Textbooks

By Lorraine Evans, K. Davies. 2000

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Scholarly communication and bibliometrics (2005, background): “…structure has been documented and developed for various purposes on various occasions in the separate literatures of hypertext (see, e.g., Botafogo, Rivlin, and Shneiderman (1992) and Furner, Ellis, and Willett (1996)) and citation analysis (see, e.g., Pinski and Narin (1976) and Doreian (1988)).”
Gender representation in Japanese EFL textbooks – a corpus study (2018, result): “The perpetuation of gender stereotyping through the choice of adjectives in the depiction of males and females echoed the findings of some earlier textbook studies (e.g. Carroll and Kowitz 1994; Evans and Davies 2000; Hartman and Judd 1978).”
Gender Identity and Stereotyping in Early and Middle Childhood (2010, background): “In particular, the media seldom show boys with feminine traits (Evans & Davies, 2000).”
Content Analysis—A Methodological Primer for Gender Research (2011, methodology): “In a second example, Evans and Davies (2000) found males in elementary school reading textbooks to be significantly more aggressive, argumentative, and competitive than females.”
Australian English‐language textbooks: the gender issues (2009, unknown): “Women were presented as more affectionate and emotional than men (e.g. Hartman and Judd 1978), and men were shown to be aggressive, argumentative, and competitive (e.g. Evans and Davies 2000).”
Learning to Be Little Women and Little Men: The Inequitable Gender Equality of Nonsexist Children's Literature (2004, result): “Other evidence supports this expectation: In a review of recent elementary textbooks, Evans and Davies (2000) found that although girls were shown to possess masculine traits, boys were not shown to possess feminine traits.”