SOCC38H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 'Spice Girls', Nice girls, Girlies, and Tomboy gender discourses, girl's culture and femininities in the primary classroom: Girl Power, Participant Observation, Tomboy
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"spice girls", "nice girls", "girlies", and "tomboys": gender discourses, girl"s culture and femininities in the primary classroom (reay) Introduction: explores how particular group of primary-aged girls is positioned, primarily in relation to dominant discourse of femininity but also in relation to those of masculinity. Indicate some ways in which the new orthodoxy, namely that girls are doing better than boys, does not tell us whole story about gender relations in primary classrooms. Group work activities: complied their own questionnaires so they that could interview each other. Gender discourses: power both located in structural advantage of individuals and also exercised partly through construction of discourses. Important to recognize there are many competing gender discourses, some if which have more power and potency than others for particular groups of girls. Gender discourse are taken up differentially by different ethnic groupings: girls can position themselves differently in relation to gender discourses according to peer group context they find themselves in.
