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Summary Of Barbie Girls Vs Sea Monsters By Michael Messner

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n his article “Barbie Girls Versus Sea Monsters”, author Michael Messner examines a highly salient gendered moment of group life among four-and five-year-old children at his son’s soccer opening ceremony, where gender boundaries were activated and enforced in ways that constructed an apparently “natural” categorial difference between the girls and the boys. Messner employs a multilevel analytical framework, from an interactionist perspective, to explore how..

1. Children “Do gender” at the level of the interaction or performance(interactional level).
Messner expands on this by discussing how the children and the parents interactively performed gender in a way that construct a seemingly natural boundary between the two separate worlds of the girls and boys.
His son’s team, the “Sea Monsters” consists of a group of 4-5 year old boys, wearing blue and green uniforms. The girls soccer team, “The Barbie Girls”, wear green and white colors, chanting and singing proudly …show more content…

He observes that the formal authority or head coach in sports tend to be a man, while the support role or team manager role tends to be held by a woman. Along with sports, I believe we witness the labour divide in other organizations as well. For example, in most offices- the doctor commonly a male, with a female secretary. In the business world, the CEO is most often a male, while the female is usually his assistant. I would like to argue that this segregation dates back to the 20th century, in which women were most often employed as servants, dressmakers, housekeeps, launders, etc., working to assist other people. Men, on the other hand, occupied more dominant positions, which seems to persist today. Although there has been an increase in equality since the 20th century- labour-force segregation that is disadvantageous to women still exists in modern

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