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Gender performativity and normalizing practices
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posted on 2001-01-01, 00:00 authored by W Martino, Maria Pallotta-ChiarolliMaria Pallotta-ChiarolliIn this chapter we examine the normalizing regimes of practice that impact on the various ways in which young people at school define desirable forms of masculinity and femininity. Attention is given to the particular role that compulsory heterosexuality and gender duality play in prescribing appropriate behavior for boys and girls. By drawing on interviews with adolescent boys, a 13-year-old self defined "tomgirl," and an adult transgender woman, and examining written responses by girls, we highlight the kinds of issues that impact on their lives at school. We also consider the invisibility of transgender
and intersexual perspectives in most educational debates on gender and sexuality.
and intersexual perspectives in most educational debates on gender and sexuality.
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Unseen genders : beyond the binariesSeries
Eruptions, vol. 12Pagination
87 - 119Publisher
Peter LangPlace of publication
New York, NY.ISBN-13
9780820450247ISBN-10
0820450243Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2001, Peter LangExtent
19Editor/Contributor(s)
F Haynes, T McKennaUsage metrics
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