Barrie Thorne [SEP] date of birth
Barrie Thorne
Barrie Thorne (born 1942) is a Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her work focuses on the sociology of gender, feminist theory, the sociology of age relations, childhood, and families, and ethnographic methods. She is perhaps best known as author of the widely read book "Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School" which has been cited in over 170 books and over 500 publications.
In 2002, she received the American
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