Playing in the gender transgression zone

Playing in the gender transgression zone

McGuffey and Rich discuss how children negotiate gender boundaries in middle childhood play. The results found that high-status boys used hegemonic masculinity to regulate both girls' and boys' boundaries by reserving the authority to sanction all gender transgressions.

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Veröffentlicht in:Gender & society 1999-10, Vol.13 (5), p.608
Hauptverfasser: McGuffey, C Shawn, B Lindsay Rich
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Boys
Girls
Sexes
Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:McGuffey and Rich discuss how children negotiate gender boundaries in middle childhood play. The results found that high-status boys used hegemonic masculinity to regulate both girls' and boys' boundaries by reserving the authority to sanction all gender transgressions.
ISSN:0891-2432
1552-3977