Welcome to the support page for your GENDER STEREOTYPES topic 
linked to your Level 3 Assessment sheet provided to you by your teacher.

A quick way to find out more about gender stereotypes is to do an internet search but remember to think critically about which websites you use. For example, the EPIC databases are probably more reliable than Wikipedia. Wikipedia has great coverage of many topics, including the topics below, but you need to be aware that this information is contributed to by lots of different people. If you are using this site, it always pays to check the information against that on other sites or in books from the library.

Using a clustering search engine (such as Carrot2) or a pre-checked search engine (such as SweetSearch) rather than relying on a 'JGI' (Just Google It) approach is a more time effective strategy. You will still need to assess the websites you find for suitability - assess your sites using the CRAP test. :)

Try these databases:

  1. Log in to the EPIC Databases using the username and password given to you by your teacher or library staff.
  2. Select Opposing Viewpoints database 
  3. Enter search terms e.g. gender stereotypes OR any other keywords you have chosen
  1. Log in to the EPIC Databases using the username and password given to you by your teacher or library staff.
  2. Select General OneFile 
  3. Enter search terms e.g. gender stereotypes OR any other keywords you have chosen
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  1. Go to Carrot2 
  2. Enter search terms e.g. gender stereotypes OR any other keywords you have chosen
  3. Click 'Foam Trees' to get a visual representation of your clustered search results. Each time you click on a cell, a new list of possible websites will appear.
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  1. Go to CliffNotes
  2. Click on the links on the left hand side to navigate your way around other topics in this area
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  1. Go to the Stuff website
  2. Choose from a huge amount of news articles on this debate
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  1. Go to the The NZ Herald website
  2. Choose from a huge amount of news articles on this debate

Just for starters ... what do you think are your views on gender stereotyping?

Do you think you are a traditional "Everyone-has-a-role-and-they-should-stay-there" thinker or a liberal "I-accept-everyone-for-who-they-are" thinker, or somewhere in between? Watch these videos and think about your prejudices ...

Would this have happened to boys do you think?

Is Conchita a man or a woman? Does it matter?
Because we have access to databases that are not available to students, we have printed off a large number of articles which will be held at the desk for you to copy, scan or read. Just ask. :)

Suggestions for short stories and/or poems on New Zealand expectations and portrayals of gender, and how these have or have not changed over time:

Short Stories:

  • Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
  • Patricia Grace's The Geranium
  • Owen Marshall's Burning boats
  • Anna Taylor's Working Girl
  • C. K. Stead's Race, Class, Gender: A post colonial yarn
  • Elizabeth Smither's Bonding
  • Katherine Mansfireld's Daughters of the late colonel
  • Joanna Knowles' Kelly
  • Katherine Mansfireld's Garden party
  • Rachel Bush's Not For Publication
  • Nancy Pickard's The Scar

Short Story collections - feel free to browse through:

  • Bliss & other stories (1920) by Katherine Mansfield
  • Penguin Book of Contemporary short stories (1989) edited by Paula Morris
  • Bosom buddies: women's stories about friendship, love and life (2003) by Kate Atkinson, Patricia Grace & Joanne Harris 
  • Women's work: contemporary short stories by New Zealand women chosen (1986) by Marion McLeod & Lydia Wevers
  • Collected Stories (2006) by Barbara Anderson
  • Collected stories (1986) by Maurice Gee
  • A woman's eye (1991) edited Sara Paretsky

Poems:

Poems within volumes held at CHSL:

121 Poems (821.08 ONE):

  • Pioneer woman with ferrets by R Dallas (p. 10)
  • Charlotte O’Neill’s song by Fiona Farrell (p.9)
  • Tug of war by Dinah Hawken (p. 15)
  • Ballad of Rosy Crocket by D Mitchell (p. 56)
  • Viola by Meg Campbell (p. 78)
  • Make sure by Jenny Bernholdt (p. 88)
  • Concrete by Stephanie de Montalk (p. 102)
  • Wild dogs under my skirt (re tattoos from male tradition used by woman) by Tusiata Avia (p. 115)

Essential NZ poems (821.08 ESS):

  • The male voice by Tony Bryan (p. 37)
  • Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace by Peter Bland (p. 40)
  • Down the hall on Saturday Night by Peter Cope (p. 56)

And a few specific articles to get you started:

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