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Starting from a brief exposition of museological reflections of recent years and from an analysis of the perception of the change of museums in public opinion, the volume aims to reaffirm the capacity of the museum to be an educational and learning tool and, above all, in the territories, to be a strong element of integration and promotion of citizenship paths. A text for educators, teachers, curators and administrators of museum institutions.

The socially expected behavior patterns related to status both the male and female ones still appear capable of orientation preferences and ways of acting of girls and boys in the different spheres of social life: from school to the world of work, from family relationships to friendships, through consumer styles, the relationship with the media, science and new technologies. The volume presents the results of a survey on the daily life and imagination of over 1.000 high school students between the ages of 14 and 19, aimed at detecting and deconstructing persistent differences and inequalities in the different spheres of social life linked to gender belonging. The picture offered by the survey, however, does not limit itself to reflecting a youth reality characterized by the persistence of differences, even notable ones, that refer to gender and, to an equally significant extent, to social origin. In fact, there are numerous signs of a rapprochement between boys and girls with respect to some daily practices. It is the stereotypical visions of gender roles, instead, that seem to transform much more slowly than social practices.