What (else) can a kiss do? Theorizing the power plays in young children’s sexual cultures
This paper draws on school-based ethnographic research in two elementary schools (South Wales, UK and north Finland) to explore the ‘ordinary affects’ (Stewart 2009) of gendered/sexual power in young children's (age 5-6) negotiation of their own and others’ bodies in playground and classroom sp...
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ftopenunivgb:oai:oro.open.ac.uk:37819 2023-06-11T04:15:09+02:00 What (else) can a kiss do? Theorizing the power plays in young children’s sexual cultures Holford, Naomi Renold, Emma Huuki, Tuija 2013 application/msword application/pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/1/what%20%28else%29%20can%20a%20kiss%20do%20final%20-%20revised%20-%20changes%20accepted.doc https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/2/3BCD6F66.pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/8/SEX487300.pdf https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713487300 unknown https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/1/what%20%28else%29%20can%20a%20kiss%20do%20final%20-%20revised%20-%20changes%20accepted.doc https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/2/3BCD6F66.pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/8/SEX487300.pdf Holford, Naomi <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/nh5886.html>; Renold, Emma and Huuki, Tuija (2013). What (else) can a kiss do? Theorizing the power plays in young children’s sexual cultures. Sexualities, 16(5-6) pp. 710–729. Journal Item Public PeerReviewed 2013 ftopenunivgb https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713487300 2023-05-28T05:50:11Z This paper draws on school-based ethnographic research in two elementary schools (South Wales, UK and north Finland) to explore the ‘ordinary affects’ (Stewart 2009) of gendered/sexual power in young children's (age 5-6) negotiation of their own and others’ bodies in playground and classroom spaces. We apply queer and feminist appropriations of Deleuze and Guattari’s key concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘becomings’ and ‘territorialisations’, not to pin down what a kiss is, but to explore the kiss as always more than itself, and thus what (else) a kiss can do. To explore the affective journey of the kiss as an always-relational social-material event, we sketch a range of kissing assemblages across four vignettes – ‘the kissing hut’, ‘the classroom kiss’, ‘the kissing line’ and ‘the dinosaur kiss’ – mapping the enabling/restriction of a range of gendered and sexual becomings. Each vignette foregrounds the complex, contradictory nature of children’s gendered and sexual cultures which we argue are vital to map in a socio-political terrain where discourses of denial, silence and (over)protection dominate accounts of how young children are doing, being and becoming ‘sexual’. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Finland The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) Sexualities 16 5-6 710 729 |
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This paper draws on school-based ethnographic research in two elementary schools (South Wales, UK and north Finland) to explore the ‘ordinary affects’ (Stewart 2009) of gendered/sexual power in young children's (age 5-6) negotiation of their own and others’ bodies in playground and classroom spaces. We apply queer and feminist appropriations of Deleuze and Guattari’s key concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘becomings’ and ‘territorialisations’, not to pin down what a kiss is, but to explore the kiss as always more than itself, and thus what (else) a kiss can do. To explore the affective journey of the kiss as an always-relational social-material event, we sketch a range of kissing assemblages across four vignettes – ‘the kissing hut’, ‘the classroom kiss’, ‘the kissing line’ and ‘the dinosaur kiss’ – mapping the enabling/restriction of a range of gendered and sexual becomings. Each vignette foregrounds the complex, contradictory nature of children’s gendered and sexual cultures which we argue are vital to map in a socio-political terrain where discourses of denial, silence and (over)protection dominate accounts of how young children are doing, being and becoming ‘sexual’. |
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What (else) can a kiss do? Theorizing the power plays in young children’s sexual cultures |
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https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/1/what%20%28else%29%20can%20a%20kiss%20do%20final%20-%20revised%20-%20changes%20accepted.doc https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/2/3BCD6F66.pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/37819/8/SEX487300.pdf https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713487300 |
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