Barrie Thorne | Academic Influence

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Barrie Thorne

Sociology

#167

World Rank

#225

Historical Rank

#87

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Barrie Thorne's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Barrie Thorne 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 Play: Girls and Boys in School which has been cited in over 170 books and over 500 publications.

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Barrie Thorne's Published Works

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Published Works

Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School (1993) (2128)
Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance (1975) (665)
THE MISSING FEMINIST REVOLUTION IN SOCIOLOGY (1985) (532)
Transnational childhoods: The participation of children in processes of family migration (2001) (521)
Rethinking The Family: Some Feminist Questions (1984) (354)
Language, gender, and society (1983) (338)
RE-VISIONING WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE: (1987) (323)
SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN CHILDREN'S DAILY WORLDS* (1986) (262)
Feminist theories: The social construction of gender in families and society. (1993) (229)
The women's health movement : feminist alternatives to medical control (1983) (176)
“You Still Takin' Notes?” Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent (1980) (158)
On the Term "Sex Roles" (1978) (108)
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. (1994) (90)
Perspectives on Language and Communication (1978) (69)
Children and gender: Constructions of difference. (1990) (62)
Editorial: Crafting the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies (2007) (59)
Feminist sociology : life histories of a movement (1997) (51)
Women in the draft resistance movement (1975) (49)
Women's Bodies and Feminist Subversions@@@Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women. (1996) (46)
Editorial: Theorizing age and other differences (2004) (41)
Year-round schools and the politics of time (1998) (37)
Language and Woman's Place. Robin Lakoff (1976) (36)
One Potato, Two Potato...: The Secret Education of American Children. (1976) (35)
Unpacking School Lunchtime: Structure, Practice, and the Negotiation of Differences (2006) (30)
Family Planning Workers: Situated Managers of Sexuality@@@The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (1987) (29)
On Being a Mother: A Study of Women with Pre-School Children.@@@Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory. (1983) (28)
“Childhood”: Changing and Dissonant Meanings (2009) (27)
Situated Affect in Traveling Data (2012) (26)
at Oakdale Elementary School: Work and Family from the Vantage Points of Children (1999) (26)
Difference and Dominance. (1977) (23)
RESISTING THE DRAFT: An Ethnography of the Draft Resistance Movement, Barrie Thorne. Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 1971 (available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan) (1972) (22)
How Can Feminist Sociology Sustain Its Critical Edge (2006) (21)
Introduction to "The Feminist Sexuality Debates" (1984) (20)
What's in an age name? (2008) (19)
Gender and interaction: Widening the conceptual scope (2002) (19)
Editorial: From Silence to Voice: Bringing Children More Fully into Knowledge (2002) (19)
“Because nobody likes Chinese girls”: Intersecting identities and emotional experiences of subordination and resistance in school life (2015) (18)
Protest and the problem of credibility: Uses of Knowledge and Risk-Taking in the Draft Resistance Movement of the 1960's (1975) (14)
The Crisis of Care (2014) (13)
Feeling at Home at Work: Life in Academic Departments (1997) (13)
Editorial: Children and the 2003 War in Iraq (2003) (10)
A Telling Time for Women's Studies (2000) (9)
Considering Dorothy Smith's social theory: Introduction (1992) (5)
Contradictions, and a glimpse of utopia: Daily life in a university women's studies program (1978) (4)
The Seven Up! films (2009) (4)
A Feminist Regrounding of Sexuality and Intimacy (1994) (4)
Children, Gender, and Issues of Well-Being (2014) (3)
Pricing the Priceless Child as a Teaching Treasure (2012) (3)
Editorial (2004) (3)
Chapter 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration (2019) (3)
At Home in the Office (2013) (2)
Editorial US disasters and global vulnerability (2006) (2)
The Science Question in Feminism.Sandra HardingReflections on Gender and Science.Evelyn Fox Keller (1987) (2)
The Academic is Political is Personal: Feminists Transforming Sociology@@@Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement (1999) (2)
Science with a Conscience (1990) (2)
: Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives . Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre, Amy Farrell, Shirley Nelson Garner, Susan Geiger, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Susan M-A Lyons, Mary Jo Maynes, Pamela Mittlefehldt, Riv-Ellen Prell, Virginia Steinhagen. (1990) (2)
Seasons of Marriage and Family Life.@@@The Family.@@@Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. (1983) (2)
Raising Children—and Growing Up—in Transnational Contexts: Comparative Perspectives on Generation and Gender: Contemporary Trends (2003) (1)
SYMPOSIUM (1995) (1)
Editorial (2002) (1)
Chapter 11. The Crisis of Care (2019) (0)
The Reconstitution of Gender in Contemporary Society:: A Roundtable Discussion (2004) (0)
Gender and interaction (2002) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
A Social Perspective on Women's Mental Health Problems (1984) (0)
Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975.Mary Roth Walsh (1978) (0)
Book reviews (1982) (0)
Book Reviews : Barbara J. Nelson. Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 169 (1987) (0)
Obituary (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (1985) (0)
SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Children in Time and Place: Developmental and Historical Insights. Glen H, Elder, Jr., John Modell, and Ross D. Parke, eds (1994) (0)
Feminism and 'The Family'@@@The Anti-Social Family@@@Patriarchal Precedents@@@What Is to Be Done about the Family?@@@Rethinking the Family (1984) (0)
Third Person Feminine, Active Voice (1984) (0)
Obituary Spencer E. Cahill (1949—2006) (2007) (0)
On the Term „Sex Roles” (2010) (0)
Closeup: Michigan State University (1976) (0)
The Spiral of Conflict: Berkeley, 1964, Max Heirich. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971, $10.00, 502 pp (1972) (0)
The Paradoxes of Research on Play. (1981) (0)
Book reviews (1976) (0)
Book Review:Building Feminist Theory: "Essays from Quest: A Feminist Quarterly" Quest Staff, Quest Book Committee (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children. Marjorie Harness GoodwinSchoolgirl Fictions. Valerie Walkerdine (1993) (0)

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