This article is called ‘Betwixt and Be Tween: Gender Contradictions among Middle Schoolers’ by Barbara J. Risman and Elizabeth Seale. The topic discussed in this chapter is about middle school boys and girls “doing gender” amongst their friends and peers. Girls have a lot less pressure to engage in male activities than guys participating in feminine activities. It comes across as “gay” for guys but is constituted as normal for girls without being teased. For boys, homophobia is alive and well in middle school. This chapter touches on research on gender and youth, contradictions and equality rhetoric, the difference between tomboy and girly-girl, and homophobic taunts and enforcement of masculinity.

This blog is about a woman who explains how people learn to do gender. She explains who influences our opinions and why it is such a popular topic today.

 http://janice-mylifeorsomethinglikeit.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-do-people-learn-to-do-gender.html

This article is about the aggression toward gay men as gender role enforcement: the effects of male role norms, sexual prejudice, and masculine gender role stress. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754233/

This newspaper article stresses the issue of homophobia and why it is a problem. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hayley-rose-horzepa/the-problem-with-homophobia_b_1173586.html

This article discusses the conversation between girls and boys have about girls' physical activity behaviors. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430756/