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Peer reviewedMoita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo – Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2003
Examines how masculinities were constructed in a Brazilian mother tongue fifth grade classroom, highlighting stories students told one another in this context. An ethnographic approach allowed naturally occurring stories to be audiotaped. Stories told in schools helped construct hegemonic masculinity by drawing on coherent systems available in…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
Peer reviewedBarker, Gary; Loewenstein, Irene – Youth & Society, 1997
Qualitative research with 127 low-income young men and women, aged 14 to 30, in Rio de Janeiro found rigid gender roles with males displaying widespread "machista" attitudes (an exaggerated deep structure of masculinity) and acceptance of violence against women that was greater in low-income urban areas. Implications for working with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries
