Playing Gender(s): The Re/Construction of a Suspect 'Gender Identity' through Play

Autor/inn/en	Brito, Sofia; Carneiro, Nuno Santos; Nogueira, Conceição
Titel	Playing Gender(s): The Re/Construction of a Suspect 'Gender Identity' through Play
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 16 (2021) 4, S.384-401 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brito, Sofia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2021.1922927
Schlagwörter	Sexual Identity; Gender Issues; Play; Identification (Psychology); Preschool Children; Child Development; Kindergarten; Clothing; Aesthetics; Femininity; Foreign Countries; Social Influences; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Geschlechterfrage; Spiel; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kindesentwicklung; Kleidung; Ästhetik; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Ausland; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	The present work intends to analyse how pre-school aged children experience the re/construction of a 'gender identity' and the processes that create it as an essential, factual, and unchangeable reality -- therefore, suspect. Given the growing importance of 'gender identity development' in child development literature, as well as the arising voices of 'gender non-conforming' childhoods, this theme seems particularly relevant when faced with the limitations imposed by macrosocial discourses of cisheteronormativity. Using grounded theory and ethnography, the re/construction processes were observed in a mixed-age kindergarten classroom in Porto and analysed through the feminist lens of gender performativity. It was possible to observe the following dimensions: clothing and accessories as performative marks of gender; beauty and its role in constructing femininities; play as a regulatory fiction, that is both shaped by and constructs gender differences; gender borders and how they can be reinstated, negotiated or defied. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01