We don’t play with gays, they’re not real boys … they can’t fight: Hegemonic masculinity and (homophobic) violence in the primary years of schooling

Bhana, Deevia; Mayeza, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.08.002

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“…Men and boys are also limited in that they are strongly discouraged from exhibiting behaviors that are considered feminine (e.g., emotional expression, nurturance; Oransky and Marecek 2009). As a result, boys often avoid behaviors associated with girls (e.g., playing with dolls) and are critical of boys who are perceived as more effeminate (Bhana and Mayeza 2016;Blakemore 2003). As such, feminist scholars have found rigid gender-typing of children problematic (e.g., clothing, toys, books, peer groups, and emotional expression; Martin 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, feminist scholars have found rigid gender-typing of children problematic (e.g., clothing, toys, books, peer groups, and emotional expression; Martin 2005). The rationale is that rigid gender-typing reinforces a binary in which boys and girls are different, and it creates a power structure in which girls and effeminate boys are perceived as inferior to more traditionally masculine boys (Bhana and Mayeza 2016;Leaper 2000;Lober 1991Lober , 1994Mahoney and Knudson-Martin 2009;Yelland and Grieshaber 1998). Our study indicates that male infants are exposed to more traditionally masculine-typed toys than to feminine-typed toys.…”

Section: Practice Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences

Boe

Woods

2017

Sex Roles

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Gender socialization influences children at early ages, shaping their developing identities. The toys provided by parents deliver some of the earliest gender-based messages by encouraging children to engage in activities associated with, for example, dolls and trucks. In the current study, we measured the influence of parental socialization by assessing 5-and 12 ½-month-old infants' exposure to dolls and trucks and by experimentally manipulating parents' encouragement to play with these toys. We found that infants displayed gender-typical toy preferences at 12 ½, but not 5 months, a pattern characteristic of previous studies. However, brief encouragement by a parent to play with toys from each category was ineffective in altering infants' preferences. Rather, the types of toys present in the home predicted preferences, suggesting that at-home exposure to toys may be influential in the development of toy preferences. These findings reveal that socialization processes may indeed play a role in the formation of early gender-typical toy preferences and highlight the importance of equal toy exposure during infancy to ensure optimal development.

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Section: Practice Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Practice Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences

Boe

Woods

2017

Sex Roles

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“…Investigating the play experiences of Black boys is also significant because Black boys not only have become victims of anti-Black misandric violence, but they also are often constructed as those who victimize others instead of those who are victims during play (Mayeza, 2017). For example, in one of the few studies on Black boys’ play, Bhana and Mayeza (2016) conducted an ethnography on 35 to 40 Black/African seventh graders in a South African township. These boys engaged in what Bhana and Mayeza suggested was homophobic violence against Black boys who defied hegemonic masculine expectations of play.…”

Section: Inadequate Versus Adequate Theories and Ways Of Examining Black Boys’ Playmentioning

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Remembering Tamir Rice and Other Black Boy Victims: ImaginingBlack PlayCrit LiteraciesInside and Outside Urban Literacy Education

Bryan

2020

Urban Education

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Building on Critical Race Theory, Black Critical Theory in education (BlackCrit), and Black Male Studies (BMS), the author theorizes what he terms Black PlayCrit and, by extension, Black PlayCrit Literacies. Black PlayCrit brings attention to the specificity of Blackness and anti-Black misandric violence in the play experiences of Black boys, including Tamir Rice, who was murdered by two police officers while playing with a toy gun in a public park in Cleveland, Ohio. Black PlayCrit Literacies serves as a conceptual and pedagogical tool to challenge anti-Black misandry in Black boys’ play experiences. Given that the play experiences of Black boys (and other children of Color) are racialized and gendered, yet undertheorized in extant literature, specific recommendations are provided for urban literacy education research and practice to acknowledge and protect Black boys from the anti-Black misandric violence they face during boyhood play.

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“…Homophobia has proven to be particularly pernicious within homo-social communities (Bhana & Mayeza, 2016;Fine, 1988;Pascoe, 2013), where homophobia becomes a tool used by boys and men to police other boys and men, attempting to ensure and/or modify behavior, dress, etc. As Messner (2002, p.…”

Section: Sport and The Social (Re)production Of Hegemonic Masculinitymentioning

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American College Football and Homophobia: An Empirical Study

Ashton¹,

Rheenen²,

Pryor³

2020

JECS

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This study examines how male hegemony in team sports, such as football, promote homophobia as a form of symbolic violence and a powerful mechanism of social control. The research included the survey administration of the Attitudes Toward Gay Men (ATG) scale (Herek, 1984, 1994) to one Division I college football team on the west coast of the United States, measuring participants’ relative levels of homophobia. Findings indicate that approximately two-thirds (n=65) of the members of this college football team reported a positive attitude towards homosexuality within this study, while roughly one-third of respondents had negative attitudes toward gay men. Level of religious faith, regardless of denomination, was the best predictor of participants’ attitudes toward homosexuality. Finally, the article discusses the study’s limitations, directions for future research and implications to enhance a more open and inclusive climate within American college football.

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We don’t play with gays, they’re not real boys … they can’t fight: Hegemonic masculinity and (homophobic) violence in the primary years of schooling

Cited by 42 publications

References 16 publications

Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences

Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences

Remembering Tamir Rice and Other Black Boy Victims: ImaginingBlack PlayCrit LiteraciesInside and Outside Urban Literacy Education

American College Football and Homophobia: An Empirical Study

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