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Professor of Anthropology at

the University of Akron. She

received her B.A. from Amherst

College and her M.A. and

Ph.D. in anthropology from

the University of Pennsylvania.

She has also taught at the

University of Pennsylvania,

Walla Walla College, and

Walla Walla Community

College. Her fieldwork is set in

peri-urban Swaziland, U.S.

trailer parks, and a U.S. food bank, where she studies 

urbanization processes and their effects on gender, work, and

family health.

For Further Reading

Epstein, D., J. Elwood, V. Hey, and J. Maw, eds. Failing Boys? 

Issues in Gender and Achievement. Philadelphia, PA: Open 

University Press, 1998.

Kleinfeld, Judith. The Myth that Schools Shortchange Girls: Social

Science in the Service of Deception. Washington, DC: The Women’s

Freedom Network, 1998. http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html

McDaniel, Thomas R., and Anita P. Davis. “You’ve Come a Long Way,

Baby—or Have You? Research Evaluating Gender Portrayal in Recent

Caldecott-Winning Books.” Reading Teacher 52-5 (1999):532-36. 

Smith, Michael W., and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. “Reading don’t fix no

Chevys” Literacy in the Lives of Young Men. Portsmouth, NH:

Heinemann, 2002.

Thorne, Barrie. “Boys and Girls Together . . . But Mostly Apart.” In The

Children’s Culture Reader, edited by Henry Jenkins, pp. 318-36. New

York: New York University Press, 1998.

Trepanier-Street, Mary L., and Jane A. Romatowski. “The Influence of

Children’s Literature on Gender Role Perceptions: A Re-examination.”

Early Childhood Education Journal 26-3 (1999):155-59.

Acknowledgments

The “Culture of Reading” study was supported by a grant from the

University of Akron’s Office of Student Development and Campus

Compact. The full research team thanks the principal, fourth grade

teachers, and staff at the elementary school and the Akron Public

School’s Office of Testing and Research for their generous, patient

support. The project succeeded because the Wensleydale fourth

graders, University of Akron undergraduates, and our three graduate

student team leaders, Jodi Ross, Rinda Riggins, and Pam Hunt, worked

hard and worked together. Thanks to Tim Matney for his support in the

production of this article.

Carolyn B

ehrman