| Title: | Traditional socialization in A. Munro’s “Boys and Girls” |
| Author: | Smaranda Ștefanovici |
| Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity. Section: Language and Discourse, 1, p. 527-531 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-93691-3-5 |
| Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | The story deals with the search of individuality in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The word girl has formerly seemed to be innocent and unburdened like the word child, now it appears it is no such thing. A girl is not, as the narrator has supposed, simply what she is; it is what she has to become. She is growing aware of traditional socialization, that is expectations for boys and girls. While the story starts with a powerful gender dichotomy relationship between brother and sister, parents and children, it develops toward the anonymous girl’s inferred but hopeful-of-a-change acceptance of gender discrimination. |
| Key words: | traditional socialization, discrimination, differences, dichotomy, interchangeability |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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