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6 Markus Tünte's "A Man's Work in a Female World? Gender Paradoxes of Male Childcare Workers" presents the results of a study on male care-workers in German pre-schools and childcare centres. The author investigates how male care-workers position themselves (and are positioned by others) in this highly gender-segregated occupational field, both in relation to female co-workers and in the overall context of childcare work, and demonstrates the extent to which they — as much as their female co-workers and the parents of the children they care for — continue to adhere to a hegemonic concept of masculinity.
7 Working out Gender is completed by reviews of Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth, edited by Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward, Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children, edited by Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, as well as Jean Wyatt's Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community.