Communicating expectations: Illustrating how gender is socially constructed

• In Event: G.I.F.T.S. Session I

Abstract

This paper outlines a teaching activity that can be used in the Interpersonal Communication or Gender and Communication course. Students conduct field research and investigate how boys’ and girls’ toys and games illustrate communication rules (Wood, 2009). The activity illustrates how gender expectations about communicated in these cultural artifacts.

Author

• Elizabeth Tolman, South Dakota State University