Duct-taped X: gender and the ‘ethically enabling conditions’ of creative-activism on pre-teen peer cultures

IF 2.2 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL ISSUES

Journal of Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI:10.1080/09589236.2023.2186839

Suvi Pihkala, Tuija Huuki

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ABSTRACT With this paper, we participate in the body of work seeking to develop ethically sustainable practices for addressing gender, sexuality and power in pre-teen peer cultures in an inclusive, non-normative and transformative manner. To do so, we draw on feminist new materialist and posthuman scholarship and a series of events from our school-based creative workshops with 10–12-year-old children. First, by analysing the gendered flows of forces of the workshop, we demonstrate how educational and research interventions on gender are entangled and fraught with heteronormative flows of force that circulate in peer cultures. Second, we argue that composing conditions for gender to be explored and addressed cannot be based on assumptions about how gender should matter when working with children but on how it does matter in the materially situated, affective and historically contingent practices of engagement. To achieve that aim, the paper proposes to ‘work in-tensionally’ to construct ‘ethically enabling conditions’ for school-based research and education on pre-teen gender and sexual cultures.

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管道胶带X：性别和青少年前同龄人文化中创造性激进主义的“道德有利条件”

摘要在这篇论文中，我们参与了一系列工作，旨在制定道德上可持续的做法，以包容、非规范和变革的方式解决青少年前同龄人文化中的性别、性和权力问题。为了做到这一点，我们借鉴了女权主义新唯物主义和后人类的学术成果，以及我们与10-12岁儿童一起举办的学校创意研讨会中的一系列活动。首先，通过分析研讨会的性别力量流动，我们展示了关于性别的教育和研究干预措施是如何与在同龄人文化中传播的非规范力量流动纠缠在一起的。其次，我们认为，探索和解决性别问题的构成条件不能基于对性别在与儿童合作时应该如何重要的假设，而是基于它在物质环境、情感和历史条件下的参与实践中如何重要。为了实现这一目标，该论文建议“紧张地工作”，为基于学校的青少年性别和性文化研究和教育创造“道德上有利的条件”。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary journal which publishes articles relating to gender from a feminist perspective covering a wide range of subject areas including the Social and Natural Sciences, Arts and Popular Culture. Reviews of books and details of forthcoming conferences are also included. The Journal of Gender Studies seeks articles from international sources and aims to take account of a diversity of cultural backgrounds and differences in sexual orientation. It encourages contributions which focus on the experiences of both women and men and welcomes articles, written from a feminist perspective, relating to femininity and masculinity and to the social constructions of relationships between men and women.