After enduring a long quarter of multiple education classes and reading tons of, essays, studies and stories pertaining to me as a future educator, I could not help but think back to my senior year of high school’s psychology class. Within the class we did an extensive unit on child psychology and sociology which involved a number of articles and stories on many aspects of children and child rearing. One particular reading and class session was about gender roles and how parents and other adults act around boys and girls, how these actions are part of the sociological conditioning that children face when maturing into adults themselves. Our teacher had us read a paper, The Story of X, by Lois Gould. At first the paper reads like a story but by the end you obviously know there is something up. The paper was first seen in a Ms. Magazine in 1975 and has been making people question the significance of sociological conditioning and gender roles. After reading the paper I found myself very interested in how gender plays into the maturation of children and societies inherent drive to label children under gender. Here is the pdf for the paper: http://www3.delta.edu/cmurbano/bio199/AIDS_Sexuality/BabyX.pdf
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Ms. Smith 