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"If You Don't Kiss Me, You're Dumped": Boys, Boyfriends and Heterosexualized Masculinities in the Primary School.
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Renold, Emma – Educational Review, 2003
An ethnographic study of 10-11 year-old boys' construction of gender and sexual identities illustrates the complex and contradictory aspects of heterosexuality. The study suggests how boys define their heterosexualities through projections of fantasies, imagined futures, misogynistic objectification of females, and homophobic performances.…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
"Coming Out": Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and the Primary School.
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Renold, Emma – Gender and Education, 2000
Uses data from an ethnographic exploration into children's gender and sexual identities during sixth grade to examine how dominant notions of heterosexuality underscore much of children's identity work and peer relationships, illustrating how boys and girls are subject to pressures of compulsory heterosexuality. Discusses the implications of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Females, Femininity