Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds

Autor:	Zella Luria, Barrie Thorne
Rok vydání:	1986
Předmět:	Social group Friendship Sociology and Political Science Psychosexual development media_common.quotation_subject Early adolescence Kiss Gender studies Human sexuality Participant observation Psychology Social relation media_common
Zdroj:	Social Problems. 33:176-190
ISSN:	1533-8533 0037-7791
DOI:	10.1525/sp.1986.33.3.03a00020
Popis:	This paper analyzes relationships between sexuality and gender in the experiences of nine to eleven year-old children, based on participant observation in four different elementary schools. Children's gender arrangements help lay the foundation for the more overtly sexual scripts of adolescence and adulthood. Extensive segregation between girls and boys, and distinctive social relations within their separate groups, provide gender-differentiated contexts for learning. Groups of boys experience shared excitement and bonding focused on public rule transgression. Girls are organized in friendship pairs linked in shifting coalitions and bond more through mutual self-disclosure; they teach and learn strategies for maintaining and ending intimacy. Heterosexual teasing (“like”; “goin with”) and rituals like “chase and kiss” heighten gender boundaries. Separate gender groups – which sustain somewhat different meanings of the sexual – and ritualized and asymmetric relations between girls and boys, prepare the way for the sexual scripts of early adolescence.
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