Barrie Thorne, född 1942 i Utah, är en amerikansk professor i sociologi samt kvinno- och genderstudier vid University of California, Berkeley. Hon fokuserar i sin forskning på gender, feminism, åldersskillnader, barndom och familjer samt etnografiska metoder. Hon är kanske mest känd som författare till Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. 2002 mottog hon Jessie Bernard-priset av American Sociological Association för sitt arbete med kvinno- och genderämnen inom sociologin.
Nätverk som hon är engagerad i American Sociological Association, 1975- Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1975- Sociologists for Women in Society, 1983- International Sociological Association Pacific Sociological Association Council on Contemporary Families, en av grundarna The National Women's Studies Association
Utmärkelser Townsend Center for the Humanities Senior Fellow, 2003. American Sociological Association Jessie Bernard Award, 2002 “given annually in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.” Norwegian Research Council, Social Scientist Visiting Fellowship, 2002. Michigan State University Faculty Women's Association Distinguished University Woman, 1982. Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1963. Marshall Scholarship, 1964. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1964.
Publikationer (utvalda) Barrie Thorne, “The Chinese Girls and the ‘Pokémon Kids’: Children Constructing Difference in Urban California.” Forthcoming in Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham, eds., Figuring the Future: Children, Youth, and Globalization. Santa Fe, NM. Barrie Thorne, “How Can Feminist Sociology Sustain its Critical Edge?” Social Problems (2006), 53: 473-478. Barrie Thorne, “Lunchtime at Sunnydale Elementary School: What Do First-grader’s Need?” In Heather B. Weiss, Holly Kreider, M. Elena Lopez, and Celina M. Chapman, eds., Preparing Educators to Involve Families: From Theory to Practice. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publishing, 2005, pp. 57–65. Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia T. Garcia Coll, Barrie Thorne, , and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, “Beyond Demographic Categories: How Immigration, Ethnicity, and ‘Race’ Matter for Children at School." In Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia Garcia Coll, Todd Bartko, Helen Davis, and Célina Chapman, editors, Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood: Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources. Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005, pp. 181–206. Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement, edited by Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press, and Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1993. Language, Gender and Society, edited by Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1983. Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, edited by Barrie Thorne, with Marilyn Yalom. New York: Longman, 1982. Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance, edited by Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1975.
Källor Tryckta källor Chira, Susan. “Educators Ask if All-Girl Schools Would Make a Difference in Inner Cities”, The New York Times, 23 oktober 1991. Manegold, Catherine S. “Women Get Into Political Football – as the Ball”, The New York Times, 23 augusti 1992. Morin, Richard. “New facts and hot states from the social sciences”, The Washington Post, 26 juni 1994. Safire, William. “On Language, He-Said, She-Said” The New York Times, 12 april 1985. Suro, Roberto. “For Women, Varied Reasons for Single Motherhood”, The New York Times, 26 maj 1992. Wright, Lili. “Playground has Serious Side: Defines Later Gender Roles”, Salt Lake Tribune, 5 mars 1995. Yalom, Marilyn. “Like a Horse and Carriage”, The Washington Post, 20 december 1992. “Staying Single”, Daily News of Los Angeles, 12 augusti 1993.
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