SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Black Canadians, Designer Clothing
2 Mar 2017
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Chapter 21: playing it down/playing it up: girls" strategic negotiations of academic. Gender shifts explained through assertion that the classroom has become a gendered space that favours the feminine while masculine tendencies become unwelcome and problematic. Smart girlhood: strategically performing to balance negative characteristics associated with being a smart girl while getting rewards of academic success: danger of being too focused on school/introverted /know-it-all, down play being smart. Play down/up academic skills depending on the risks & rewards of being seen as studious. Gender is performative - not natural or innate. Doing smart girlhood: socially constructed understanding of gender as something girls do : positioned to play particular roles in school, practice is much more challenging than depicted in accounts that feminize education. Supergirl: positioned in post-feminist context, in which girls no longer experience gender inequality and are instead, thriving. Girls now seem free to embrace their academic success unimpeded and without ambivalence.
