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In this chapter, Alexandrowicz summons the work of Pierre Bourdieu in order to analyse the social matrix within which a complex set of practices regarding sex and gender unfolds. A number of gender-producing phenomena are considered, including the current North American fetish for using pink and blue to identify the sex of babies and young children, the ‘Princess’ phenomenon, the effects of video games, and the obsession with muscularity among young men.
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See Sylvia Thomson , 19 June 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-content-reviewers-1.4708722 (accessed 22 June 2019).
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I draw the reader’s attention to the American Psychological Association’s Report of the Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, available at: http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/index.aspx (accessed 29 August 2018).
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Please see https://www.menshealth.com/ (accessed 29 August 2018).
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See, for example, https://www.muscleandfitness.com/workouts/workout-tips/7-reasons-your-guns-arent-growing (accessed 29 August 2018).
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Alexandrowicz, C. (2020). ‘You’re Soaking in It’: The Socio-Cultural Bath. In: Acting Queer. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29318-5_2
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