In Shards of Glass Bronwyn Davies follows on from the international success of Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales, looking for ways to interact with children and to speak and write in a fashion that disrupts the male/female dualism. The children here are of primary school age. Davies explores with them the possibility of discovering different ways of being, as well as looking at the ways in which gender relations are resistant to change. The children are from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds and include boys since the burden of change cannot lie entirely with girls. Davies is present in many ways: as writer, child, researcher, mother and daughter. Shards of Glass looks at the processes through which gender is constituted from a poststructuralist perspective: at the usual ways knowledge is constructed in classrooms, the nature of femininities and masculinities and the children's experiences of sexuality.