User:Lovinglearner

Contribution Plan

Here is the plan I have made for editing the gender section under the toy page.

Wikipedia Contribution Outline

            For this assignment, I will be working with the general “toy” page under the subheading “gender” because it provides a good starting place for quality contributions.

-      To start with, I would like to contribute to the beginning of this section. Right now, it is only one sentence which seems a rather poor introduction to the chapter. I would like to add a bit about the history of gender in toys (Zosuls) because this is something that isn’t touched on at all within the toy section. I could also add a bit about how this opinion has developed in recent passed years (Jones)

-      Next, I would like to add another study such as the one referenced in the second paragraph. The study from the article I summarized would be good (Trawick-Smith), as well as another article referenced in my annotated bibliography which studied even younger aged children (Todd). I feel that adding another study involving children and their interaction with toys would add some depth and a bigger variety of connection in terms of this issue.

-      In the third paragraph, I would like to correct it in terms of parents. It seems to say that all parents encourage gender play, but I learned from reading my partner’s summarized article that some parents do not. I would like to use the source she used to clarify this paragraph and give it more credibility and detail (Witt). I also have a magazine article in my annotated bibliography which adds some other sources to this debate and could contribute well in that it sources many experts and adds the idea of religion and dogma into the mix (Mullins). My partner’s article however provides a more neutral or unbiased perspective.

-      After the third paragraph, I would like to continue with the addition I made previously referencing Target and Disney as examples of stores changing their attitudes on this issue (Miller). I would like to add more modern debate on this issue, as well as the response by other main stores or toy producers (Auster). I think this would give the article more presence in the modern world and relevance to those reading it.

-      The fourth paragraph is a specific example of children’s toys related to gender from South America which I find very interesting and a good addition. After that paragraph, I think it would be good to add a paragraph which discusses the repercussion of gender influence in toys, perhaps in terms of parents or the child’s identity in general. This paragraph would be a culmination of all of the things said by my sources in terms of the repercussions of adding gender to toys or not adding gender to toys.

Sources Referenced

Auster, Carol J., and Claire S. Mansbach. "The Gender Marketing of Toys: An Analysis of Color

and Type of Toy on the Disney Store Website." Sex Roles, vol. 67, no. 7-8, 2012, pp. 375-388, Sociological Abstracts, http://echo.louisville.edu/login url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1037769825?accountid=14665, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-012-0177-8.

Jones, Marian M. “Toy Story.” Psychology Today, vol. 29, no. 6, Nov/Dec96, p. 12.

EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9611122255&site=ehost-live

Miller, Claire Cain. “Boys and Girls, Constrained by Toys and Costumes.” The New York Times,

The New York Times, 30 Oct. 2015,

www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/upshot/boys-and-girls-constrained-by-toys-and-costumes.html.

Mullins, Michael. “Good Parents Don’t Make Gender Stereotypical Choices.” Eureka Street, vol.

24, no. 24, 08 Dec. 2014, pp. 57-58. EBSCOhost,

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Todd, Brenda K., et al. “Preferences for Gender-Typed Toys in Boys and Girls Aged 9 to 32

Months.” Infant and Child Development, vol. 26, no. 3, 2016. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO], doi: 10.1002/icd.1986.

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Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey, et al. “Effects of Toys on the Play Quality of Preschool Children:

Influence of Gender, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status.” Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Mar. 2014, pp. 249–256. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO], doi:10.1007/s10643-014-0644-7.

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Witt, Susan D. “Parental Influence on Children’s Socialization to Gender Roles.” Adolescence,

vol. 32, no. 126, Sum 1997, pp. 253-259. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=1997-04650-001&site=ehost-live.

Wong, Wang and Melissa Hines. “Effects of Gender Color-Coding on Toddlers’ Gender-Typical

Toy Play.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 44, no. 5, July 2015, pp. 1233-1242. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10508-014-0400-5.

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Zosuls, Kristina M., et al. "Gender Development Research in Sex Roles: Historical Trends and Future Directions." Sex Roles, vol. 64, no. 11-12, 2011, pp. 826-842, Sociological Abstracts, http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/869610139?accountid=14665, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9902-3.