Repenser la construction des âges : sortie de l'enfance et temporalités plurielles

Diasio, Nicoletta

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“…“Finding one's place” by comparing the changes of one's body to those that are happening to other family members, especially those of the same sex, constitutes one of the ways in which people take up their place in a family (Diasio, 2014 ). Turner syndrome, however, turns these relations upside down.…”

Section: Françoise or The Trouble In Kinshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, the attitude toward menstruation is closer than one might imagine to that of French adolescents encountered in other research (Mardon, 2009 ). The menarche is part of the definition of growing up and indicates a good state of health, nevertheless the presence of first menses is not a sufficient condition to become “women” (Diasio, 2014 ). However, the importance given to periods depends, more than other factors, on the moment in which these women and girls are interviewed.…”

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Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Diasio

2023

Front. Sociol.

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This paper focuses on the strength of social norms that define the right development of the body in time. It also analyzes how the social positions of age, gender and generation intertwine in the definition of such a legitimate body. The starting point is anthropological research carried out in France between 2018 and 2020 among girls and women affected by Turner syndrome, a rare genetic condition causing small stature, ovarian insufficiency, a delay or absence of puberty, and infertility. We first explore how measuring the body has become central in the social construction of the concept of age-appropriateness. We then present four women' narratives, which express various forms of desynchronization: the gap between physical appearance, chronological age and age status; the cleft between the physical development induced by hormone therapy and being in a particular stage in life; the difference between chronological and reproductive age; and lastly, the trouble in a generational position related to infertility. For women suffering from this genetic condition, the gap between bodies, time and social statuses associated with age, gender and generation, may engender a feeling of “being out of place.” The alignment of body and time is then one of the bastions of essentialization and naturalization. Finally, we stress the complex interplay of bodily and social markers of age and gender, and their role in social relations as both a resource and a constraint. Thus, while the syndrome may cause distress and sometimes a lack of legitimacy, it also leads to a critical re-examination of hegemonic models of womanhood and their intersection with age positions.

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Section: Françoise or The Trouble In Kinshipmentioning

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Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Diasio

2023

Front. Sociol.

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“…Children love to play, go out with friends, do sport... They are not particularly interested in their success at school; they live more in the present (Diasio, 2014) than in a hypothetical projection produced by adult institutions.…”

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Agency or disempowerment: Children with learning disorders in France

Vinel¹,

Kushtanina²

2019

Salute E Società

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The paper deals with the agency of children with learning disorders, living in France. Conducted by qualitative methodology with children, parents and professionals, the research opens up the debate on how adults speak for the children and create diagnostics and care trajectories for them. It also questions the silences of the children, the ways they interpret and make sense of their world (Corsaro, 2018). Finally, we question how children are able to act by following Hirschman's (1970) three options: exit, voice and loyalty. As in the sociology of minorities, questioning the agency of children comes down to highlighting not only the processes and systems to which they are subjected, but also the diversion tactics, secondary adjustments, avoidance strategies and resistance techniques that enable them to take hold of issues.

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Transitions à l’adolescence et diabète de type 1 : une approche socio-anthropologique

Diasio

Vinel

Bichet

2019

Médecine des Maladies Métaboliques

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Repenser la construction des âges : sortie de l'enfance et temporalités plurielles

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Illegitimate bodies? Turner syndrome and the silent interplay of age, gender, and generational positions

Agency or disempowerment: Children with learning disorders in France

Transitions à l’adolescence et diabète de type 1 : une approche socio-anthropologique

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