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The paper looks at how in "What About the Boys?" Michael Kimmel explores a number of facets of the complex debate over gender stereotyping and the contemporary education system. Proceeding from an initial focus upon the current concern over the apparent decline in academic performance of boys in recent years, Kimmel develops a wide-ranging interrogation of not only issues and agendas in the current debate, but also of broader social gender conditioning and stereotyping in our culture and how this is negatively impacting generations of males. This paper critically examines not only Kimmel's analysis of this debate, but also those of a range of scholars and theorists. As is argued, a review of the background literature on the debate from not only social scientists but education professionals supports Kimmel's contention that what is at issue in this current debate is not so much the declining academic performance of boys but, in reality, a "backlash" against contemporary feminism. As is seen, this underperformance of boys is a reality that has been noted by educational professional for several generations, and the greater access and performance of girls in the education system in recent years is actually not related to underperformance of boys in any respect. Instead, as is argued, this linkage is a "red herring" designed to both attack the gains of the feminist movement while obscuring the reality of the negative impact of gender stereotyping upon boys' academic performance that education researchers have noted for several generations.

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"In "What About the Boys?" Michael Kimmel explores a number of facets of the complex debate over gender stereotyping and the contemporary education system. Proceeding from an initial focus upon the current concern over the apparent decline in academic performance of boys in recent years, Kimmel develops a wide-ranging interrogation of not only issues and agendas in the current debate, but also of broader social gender conditioning and..."

Tags:boys, education, feminism

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The paper answers the questions in the "A Writers Technique: Summarizing and Paraphrasing" section of the article "Boys Will Be Boys" by Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb. The paper describes how the article is about the gender development of boys from early childhood through late adolescence. The paper looks at how the article cites both biological and sociological factors as important to understand.

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"A: Traditionally masculine attributes, like intense physical energy and aggression, should be seen as natural traits in boys. B: Boys need to be allowed to fully develop and live out both their needs for closeness and their needs for autonomy as they grow up. C: Boys should be taught that they could be both powerful and compassionate, strong and nurturing; they shouldn't have to choose to enact only one kind of trait. D: In adolescence, boys tend to be quiet and keep their feelings to..."

Tags:boys, gender, development

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This paper chronicles the famous Scottsboro Boys trial. It's a story of racism in the 1930's that describes the events leading to the trial, the trial itself and the outcome. The paper describes what happened to the boys while they were in jail and the events and outcome of their second trial. Racism appears and reappears throughout the story of the Scottsboro Boys, as they were sentenced to death on several different occasions, despite obvious inconclusive or debatable evidence. Finally, the paper briefly describes the fate of all people involved in the case.

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"When the train that they were riding on stopped in Stevenson, Alabama, the small group of black boys decided to walk along the tracks. A short while later they met up with some more black boys from another car. The boys decided that they would get back at the white boys who had been throwing rocks at them earlier. Once the train started again, the same group of white boys started throwing rocks at the blacks from a lower car. The now rather large group of blacks got in the car that the whites were riding in and started fighting them."

Tags:1930, black, blacks, book, boys, nigger, racism, report, scottsboro, train, trial

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This paper presents a critical exploration of boys' consistent underperformance of boys at reading and language skills in comparison to girls.According to the paper, it is a consequence of systemic gender stereotyping in our society. The paper additionally notes that while this problem has recently entered the popular consciousness, in reality it has existed for decades.

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"Among contemporary teaching professionals, one of the most compelling issues of our time is that of the underperformance of boys at reading and language skills in comparison to girls. This is a particularly controversial issue, as it follows upon a very similar concern in the discipline some years before regarding the underperformance of girls in particular subjects. Moreover, as any review of the literature on the subject will reveal, the complex and controversial issues of gender..."

Tags:boys, reading, education

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This paper describes how boys are not achieving at high rates in American classrooms today. According to the paper, girls are seriously outperforming boys and getting into college at much higher rates. Educators are split over how to address this performance problem. The problem is complicated because in the past, girls were discriminated against and not given equal opportunity.

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" There is a problem in American classrooms today. One group of students is seriously outperforming another group and getting into college at much higher rates. Educators are split over how to address this performance problem. The problem is complicated because in the past one group was discriminated against and not given equal opportunity. These two groups are male and female students. Today females outperform..."

Tags:war, boys, education

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This paper addresses prohibiting factors of a middle school approach in a traditional private catholic boys school, explaining the contextual factors that may prohibit the middle schooling approach to a private catholic all boys' school.

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"According to Lounsbury, middle schools are unique educational institutions which have significantly evolved over the last several decades. Lounsbury reports that today the middle school has several key functions e.g. integration, exploration, guidance, differentiation, socialization and articulation, and several key characteristics e.g. educators knowledgeable about and committed to young adolescents, a balanced curriculum based on student needs, a range of organizational arrangements, varied instructional strategies and so forth. The..."

Tags:Catholic boys schools, middle school approach

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Richard M Restak in his article "The Other Difference Between Boys and Girls" examines some of those stereotypes and demonstrates that differences in behavioral performance of boys and girls are determined by brain functioning. He intends to reverse conventional wisdom about discrimination based on sex, and pursues his analysis with the assumption that "social equality for men and women really depends on recognizing these differences in brain behavior"

Tags:brain, boys, girls

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This paper interprets the movie "Boys Don't Cry" using the personality theory of Erik Erikson. The author presents a brief synopsis of the movie and an analysis of its main character, Teena Brandon. The paper concludes that, based on Erikson's conceptual framework of personality and psychosocial development, Teena has an issue of identity diffusion.

Tags:Boys, Don't, Cry

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This paper compares and contrasts two short stories that address the different ways in which boys and girls are treated in modern-day society. The paper looks at how each text treats the cult of domesticity to which young women are wed, how human sexuality is treated in each story and how gender relations are addressed in each work. The paper concludes that while there are similarities, the major difference appears to be that Kincaid's narrator sounds like someone who has given up hope; Munro's young girl is mostly still in that hopeful state before reality dawns upon her.

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"This paper compares and contrasts two short stories that address the different ways in which boys and girls are treated in modern-day society. The essay looks at how each text treats the cult of domesticity to which young women are wed; the essay also ponders how human sexuality is treated in each story; and things conclude with a look at how gender relations are addressed in each work. Ultimately, while there are similarities, the major difference appears to be that Kincaid's narrator sounds like someone..."

Tags:girl, boy, kincaid

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This paper analyzes the film "Boys Don't Cry" created in 1999, which explores how we identify gender and differentiate between the masculine and the feminine. The paper describes the story of the female Teena Brandon who masquerades herself as the male Brandon Teena. It illustrates visually that identity as male and female actually involves only a relative few visual and aural cues. The author writes that society does not tolerate that much freedom and that those who step too far outside the gender boundaries society has set are destroyed. The paper demonstrates how gender is not the only issue being tested in this film, for ideas about small towns, tolerance, and the threat of the outsider are also examined.

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"The film Boys Don't Cry (1999, Kimberly Peirce) is based on a true story and raises numerous real-world issues in its story of a murder case in middle America in which the victim was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. The film delves into gender issues, questions of identity, and the ethics of interpersonal relationships. First, the viewer asks why so many people were fooled for such a long time by this masquerade."

Tags:movie, murder, america, victim, girl, boy, gender, identity, ethics, interpersonal, relationships, masquerade, teena, brandon