Achilles effect

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Explores gender bias in the entertainment aimed at primary school boys, focusing on the dominant themes in children's TV shows, toy advertising, movies and books; gender stereotypes of both sexes, male dominance, negative portrayals of fathers, breaking of the mother/son bond and the devaluing of femininity.

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