Mediating Gendered Performances: Young People Negotiating Embodiment in Research Discussions

Autor/inn/en	Phoenix, Ann; Pattman, Rob; Croghan, Rosaleen; Griffin, Christine
Titel	Mediating Gendered Performances: Young People Negotiating Embodiment in Research Discussions
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 26 (2013) 4, S.414-433 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2013.765612
Schlagwörter	Gender Discrimination; Gender Bias; Focus Groups; Femininity; Masculinity; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Consumer Economics; Group Discussion; Semi Structured Interviews; Sexuality; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Differences; Social Values; Social Cognition; Social Theories; Social Science Research; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterstereotyp; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Männlichkeit; Ausland; Fragebogen; Konsumökonomie; Gruppendiskussion; Sexualität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sozialer Unterschied; Sozialer Wert; Soziale Kognition; Gesellschaftstheorie; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Großbritannien
Abstract	Gender inequalities in schools have implications for life chances, emotional well-being and educational policies and practices, but are apparently resistant to change. This paper employs Judith Butler's conceptualisation of performativity in a study of young people and consumption to provide insights into gendered inequities. It argues that how the young people "do" gender in focus groups frequently involves the discussion of young women's bodies and clothes in ways that are "culturally intelligible". The focus on young women's bodies produced joking relationships and a taken-for-granted understanding of gender in some same-sex interactions, but sometimes created tension and divisions in mixed-gender groups. Discussions of sexualisation in single-sex and mixed-sex groups were similarly emotionally loaded. The paper argues that attention to gender inequalities requires detailed attention to the differential power relations in which boys express desires to control feminine bodies and girls police their own and other girls' bodies. Methodologically, the paper suggests that focus group discussions constitute an ethnographic site for analysis and that researchers co-construct young people's narratives of embodied gender practices in ways that mediate young people's gendered performances. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10