ANTH 2815 Chapter 9: ANTH 2815 Week 9 Readings

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2815
• Professor: Caputo Virginia

Document Summary

Contextualising the sexualisation of girls debate: innocence, experience and young female sexuality. gender and education, vol. Aim: contextualise debates on sexualisation of girls through difference interpretational perspectives (including girls themselves) Feminist-inflicted studies present more measured account of a changing sexual climate and implications for young female sexuality. Intra-gender differences and class formations that serve to define contemporary girlhood through class-coded (cid:272)ategories su(cid:272)h as (cid:858)at risk(cid:859) or (cid:858)high a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:859) Ethnographic study of sexual cultures in an urban primary school in the uk. Wa(cid:455)s that se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d desire feature i(cid:374) fe(cid:373)ale frie(cid:374)dship groups a(cid:374)d girl(cid:859)s se(cid:454)ual biographies during puberty. Bollywood song: themes of romance provide insight to the social world of pre-adolescent girls --> challenge the notion of sexual innocence. How the concept of childhood innocence can be disrupted by the sexual knowingness of girls. Narratives: girls have charm/appeal, particularly to older men. Wa(cid:455)s girlhood is li(cid:448)ed a(cid:374)d parti(cid:272)ularl(cid:455) girls(cid:859) induction into the domain of the sexual.