BECOMING A GENDERED BODY

Becoming a Gendered Body



Becoming a Gendered Body

Children sometimes resist their bodies to be gender. For example, three-year-old boys dressed in women's clothes sometimes. Five-year-old girl played with a relaxed behavior that is normatively (hegemonically) men as they sat with his legs on a table and chairs tipped back. In one class, the boys were at the peak of its activity loudly running and throwing toys and blocks girls took the opportunity to be loud, too, as teachers pay less attention to them and try to get the boys to calm down. In some interactions, but the girls are likely to be loud and physically assertive, if the boy was unusually so: JosC makes plastic toy horse fly across the room, and boys play with blocks is quite loud and irritable. JosC right toy horse flies in the face of Jessica, and then zooms around her and right up to her again. Jessica holds her hand and waves at him shouting: "Aaaarrrh". JosC horse flies in another direction. (Five years) These cases of resistance indicate that gender physical ties are not natural, and they are not easily and directly purchased.

The study suggests ways that the practice in preschools, as to facilitate the acquisition of children's gender physical ties. Men and women and boys and girls complete a social space with their bodies differently (Martin, 1998). Our everyday movements, postures and gestures are gendered. These physical differences increase the apparent naturalness of sexual and reproductive differences, which then build the inequality between men and women. As McKinnon (1987) notes: "Differences message of inequality in a special excuse ..." (P. 8). In other words, these differences provide the context for social relations in which differences confirm the unequal distribution of power.

This study suggests that bodies are both gender ...