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Authored by: Dr Mindy Blaise
Publication year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract:
Playing It Straight is based on a unique qualitative study which explores how gender is created, taken up, and performed in an urban kindergarten classroom. Both feminist poststructuralism and queer theory are used to encourage new understandings of children's talk and actions within the social context of an early childhood classroom. Gender discourses are discussed, providing students and teachers with examples of how the heterosexual matrix works in a classroom setting and with young children. Three engaging case studies of an Anglo-American, middle-class boy, an Anglo-American working-class girl, and an Asian-American, working-class girl are presented showing how children use their understanding of gender discourses in various ways to regulate the gender social order of the classroom. Playing It Straight shows how post developmental perspectives can challenge teachers and students to reconceptualize gender as a social, historical, cultural, and political construction, and to recognize that young children take an active part of constructing and reconstructing their gender identities.
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