Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone

McGuffey, C. Shawn; Rich, Brian L.

doi:10.1177/089124399013005003

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“…This similarity reflected the more active and assertive behaviors of girls rather than more traditionally feminine behaviors among boys. Although Filardo's (1996) results were limited by a small sample size and a specific focus on mixedgender interactions, other researchers have also found that African American early adolescent girls tend to exhibit assertive behaviors (e.g., McGuffey & Rich, 1999).…”

Section: Styles and Symbolsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Research also suggests that African American girls tend to interact more with same-sex, same-race peers, whereas boys tend to interact with other boys regardless of race (Fishbein & Imai, 1993; J. A. Graham, Cohen, Zbikowski, & Secrist, 1998; McGuffey & Rich, 1999). This gender difference in cross-race friendship patterns has been found in preschool (Fishbein & Imai, 1993), middle childhood (J.…”

Section: Gender-based Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender Development in African American Youth

Skinner

Perkins

Wood

et al. 2016

Journal of Black Psychology

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Using the organizing framework of Ruble, Martin, and Berenbaum (2006), we summarized literature on gender development in African American youth within six content areas: biological/categorical sex, activities and interests, personal-social attributes, social relationships, styles and symbols, and values regarding gender. Results with African Americans were compared with what is known about gender processes in other U.S. racial groups, and gaps in the literature were noted. Finally, we summarized the literature on socialization influences on gender development in African American youth, focusing particularly on parents and media. Our review shows that gender, along with race, plays a significant role in the development of African American youth, with many of these processes similar to what is found in youth of other racial/ethnic groups. Contextual factors such as family structure and racial context are important to take into account to best understand individual differences in the gender development of Black youth.

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Section: Styles and Symbolsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Gender-based Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Development in African American Youth

Skinner

Perkins

Wood

et al. 2016

Journal of Black Psychology

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“…Scholars, for example, have found that the informal games kids play during recess and summer camps often reinforce gender, sexual and racial hierarchies (Corsaro, 2003;Thorne, 1993;McGuffey & Rich, 1999;Moore, 2001;Van Ausdale & Feagin, 2001). Fine (1987), moreover, found that while "hanging out" at baseball practices, boys gain status among their friends by sexually objectifying girls and insulting lower status boys.…”

Section: Learning From Children and Youth Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Where Are the Kids?

Messner¹,

Musto²

2014

Sociology of Sport Journal

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Huge numbers of children participate in sports. However, kids and sports are rarely seen, much less systematically studied by sport sociologists. Our survey of the past decade of three major sport sociology journals illustrates a dearth of scholarly research on children and sport. While noting the few exceptions, we observe that sport studies scholars have placed a disproportionate amount of emphasis on studying sport media, and elite amateur, college, and professional athletes and sport organizations, while largely conceding the terrain of children's sports to journalists and to a handful of scholars whose work is not grounded in sport sociology. We probe this paradox, speculating why sport scholars focus so little on such a large and important object of study in sport studies. We end by outlining a handful of important scholarly questions for sport scholars, focusing especially on key questions in the burgeoning sociological and interdisciplinary fields of children and youth, bodies and health, and intersectional analyses of social inequality.Un très grand nombre d'enfants participent à des sports. Cependant, les enfants et les sports sont rarement considérés et encore moins systématiquement examinés par les sociologues du sport. Notre enquête sur la dernière décennie dans trois journaux majeurs en sociologie du sport illustre la rareté de la recherche académique sur les enfants et le sport. Alors que nous soulignons quelques exceptions, nous observons que les chercheurs en études du sport ont surtout porté attention aux médias sportifs, aux athlètes élites de niveau amateur, collégial ou professionnel, et aux organisations sportives, tout en concédant le domaine du sport pratiqué par les enfants aux journalistes et aux quelques chercheurs dont le travail n'était pas directement en sociologie du sport. Nous questionnons ce paradoxe, nous demandant pourquoi les scientifiques s'attardent si peu à un si grand et important objet d'étude dans le domaine du sport. Nous terminons en soulignant les enjeux académiques importants pour les chercheurs en études du sport, en nous concentrant en particulier sur les questions clés dans les domaines sociologiques et interdisciplinaires en pleine expansion que sont les enfants et la jeunesse, le corps et la santé, et les analyses inter-sectionnelles des inégalités sociales.Alarmist news and political discourses in recent years have warned of an "obesity epidemic" among youth, a fear fueled in part by cultural images of inactive

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“…In addition to avoiding behaviors that can be socially coded as gay, fear of being perceived unmasculine results in many men avoiding both working and playing in feminized terrains (McGuffey and Rich 1999;Williams 1995). The motivations for these behaviors are not out of appreciation or respect of the dominant form of masculinity, but instead through fear of being the subject of homophobic abuse; something Plummer (1999, p. 150) calls "homophobia phobia.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Influence of Declining Homophobia on Men’s Gender in the United States: An Argument for the Study of Homohysteria

2014

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(2014) 'The inuence of declining homophobia on men's gender in the United States : an argument for the study of homohysteria.', Sex roles., 71 (3-4). pp. 109-120. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-014-0358-8Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-014-0358-8. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. exists into the effects of the liberalization of sexual attitudes on these groups. In this forum, we call for scholarly engagement with a relatively new arena of masculinities studies: the impact of decreasing homophobia on socially acceptable gendered behaviors among heterosexual males in the U.S. We offer homohysteria as a concept to examine the impact of heterosexual male's fear of being thought gay; suggesting that homohysteria is an effective heurism for investigating micro-and macro-level processes relating homophobia to masculinity. Our thesis is that as homohysteria declines, heterosexual males are able to engage in homosocial relationships characterized by a number of positive traits, including:the social inclusion of gay male peers; the embrace of once-feminized artifacts; increased emotional intimacy; increased physical tactility; the erosion of the one-time rule of homosexuality; and a rejection of violence. We focus solely upon heterosexual males and their attitudes toward gay males because these are the demographics of the participants in the empirical research in this area. We then highlight eight key areas where further research could both develop homohysteria as a concept and enhance understanding of social life.

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Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone

Cited by 109 publications

References 8 publications

Gender Development in African American Youth

Gender Development in African American Youth

Where Are the Kids?

The Influence of Declining Homophobia on Men’s Gender in the United States: An Argument for the Study of Homohysteria

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