Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children
This article explores the vital roles of matter in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children. Based on a case study of a seven-year-old girl, it draws from ethnographic research on the gendered and sexual power relations of students in Northern Finland. Inspired by feminist, new mat...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/13634607221126937 2024-04-28T08:32:23+00:00 Mundane matters: Mapping the becomings of heterosexual girlhood in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children Puutio, Eveliina Huuki, Tuija Pihkala, Suvi Academy of Finland 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634607221126937 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13634607221126937 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/13634607221126937 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sexualities page 136346072211269 ISSN 1363-4607 1461-7382 Anthropology Gender Studies journal-article 2022 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221126937 2024-04-09T08:02:09Z This article explores the vital roles of matter in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children. Based on a case study of a seven-year-old girl, it draws from ethnographic research on the gendered and sexual power relations of students in Northern Finland. Inspired by feminist, new materialist theories, the analysis indicates how everyday objects may be seen as co-constituting heterosexual femininity by attaching even young girls to teenage cultures and emphasizing femininity and distancing them from childhood and masculinity. This article shows, furthermore, how materiality acts in generating “cross-pulls” that may evoke popularity and admiration, but also cause restrictions to the agency of girls in the ambiguous entanglements of child sexual cultures. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland SAGE Publications Sexualities 136346072211269 |
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This article explores the vital roles of matter in the emerging sexual cultures of elementary school children. Based on a case study of a seven-year-old girl, it draws from ethnographic research on the gendered and sexual power relations of students in Northern Finland. Inspired by feminist, new materialist theories, the analysis indicates how everyday objects may be seen as co-constituting heterosexual femininity by attaching even young girls to teenage cultures and emphasizing femininity and distancing them from childhood and masculinity. This article shows, furthermore, how materiality acts in generating “cross-pulls” that may evoke popularity and admiration, but also cause restrictions to the agency of girls in the ambiguous entanglements of child sexual cultures. |
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