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Allard, A. et al. Stages: Steps Towards Addressing Gender in Educational Settings.

Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, 1995. The focus of Stages is on the ways we construct gender and how this relates to classroom practice and school organisation and management. It explores understandings of gender from a personal and professional perspective in a professional development program for primary and secondary teachers and provides activities for working in small teams It relates construction of gender to classroom practice, school organisation and management.

Alloway, N. Foundation Stones: The Construction of Gender in Early Childhood.

Gender equity in curriculum reform. Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, 1995. Recommended to teachers of all levels, Foundation Stones shows how gender is constructed with young children. In easily accessible language it offers explanations of the arguments for nature and social construction. Three different models for addressing gender inequities are explored: `equal opportunity', `gender-inclusive' and `contesting the binarisms of gender'.

Browne, R. 'Schools and the construction of masculinity'. In Browne, R, and Fletcher, R. (eds)
	Boys in Schools: addressing the real issues. Finch Publishing, Sydney, 1995.

Buchbinder, D. Masculinities and Identities. Melbourne University Press, 1994.

This book traces some causes of the crisis in masculinity, the developing interest in masculinity, and the creation of men's studies as an academic subject. Showing that such enquiries originate in feminist theory and gay political activist theory of the 1960s, it examines the dynamics at work in the various cultural constructions of masculinity, ranging from the early decades of the twentieth century to the present.

Clarke, M. The Great Divide: The Construction of Gender In the Primary School.
	Curriculum Development Centre, Canberra, 1989. This publication suggests that the primary years are crucial in the construction of gendered achievement and aspirations.

Connell, R. Gender and Power. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1987.

Connell seeks to integrate gender and sexuality into the mainstream of social and political theory with the aim of challenging and transforming these traditional areas. The book maps the structure of gender relations in contemporary life and in history; proposes a new approach to femininity and masculinity; and offers a wide-ranging analysis of sexual politics and the dynamics of change, from working-class feminism to the dilemmas of the `men's movement'.

Connell, R. Masculinities. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
	Connell puts the various approaches to masculinity developed over many years by psychoanalysts, social scientists and social change activists under scrutiny. He examines the new forms of masculinity politics, including `masculinity therapy' and gun lobby politics, finishing with a discussion of ways in which men can pursue social justice in a gendered world.

Davies, B. Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales: Pre-school Children and Gender.

Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989. Davies explores how and why children become masculine or feminine. She shows how the way in which gender is constructed in our society means that in learning to be members of our society children must learn `the way maleness and femaleness is done' and they must get it right. This study provides detail of the gendered world of childhood and new insights into the social construction of gender.

Department for Education and Children's Services. Gender Perspectives:
	How the Individual, School and Society Shape Status and Identity Based on Sex. Adelaide, 1995.

Department for Education and Children's Services. Girls and Boys Come Out to Play:
	Teaching About Gender Construction and Sexual Harassment in English and Studies of Society and Environment.. Adelaide, 1996.

Fraser, H & White, R. (eds). Constructing Gender: Feminism in Literacy Studies.
	University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995.

Friedman, B. Boys' Talk: A Program for Young Men about Masculinity,
	Non-violence and Relationships. Men Against Sexual Assault, Kookaburra Press, Adelaide, 1996.

McLean, C. Boys and Education . Dulwich Centre Publications, 1994.

Wearing, B. `"Poor boys", Power and Gender: The masculinist response to femininity'.
	In Wearing, B. Interpretations special edition: Boys in English. English Teachers' Association of Western Australia, vol. 27, no. 2, Perth, 1994.