Normed Children

Effects of Gender and Sex Related Normativity on Childhood and Adolescence. Edited by Erik Schneider and Christel Baltes-Löhr. Translated by Matthias Müller and Svantje Volkens.

Princess Lillifee, Bob the Builder, Kinder Surprise Eggs for girls. Why is gender role typical behaviour taught to children from an early age and what alternatives are there? A plea for an education beyond strict gender dichotomy norms. This book shows that the traditional assumption of a dualistic, bipolar normativity of sex and gender leads to children being taught gender-typical behavior. The contributions in this volume explore the reasons for these practices and open the debate on the divergence between the prevailing norms and the plurality of different life plans. In addition, the book helps to disengage the topic of sex and gender from a hitherto narrowly circumscribed context of sexual orientation.The contributions point the way towards a culture of respect and mutual acceptance and show new methodological as well as theoretical approaches, e.g. by introducing the figure of the continuum, so that, in future research projects, more than just the two sexes and genders of female and male might be considered as a new normality. 368 Seiten mit 25 Abb., broschiert (Gender Studies/transcript 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear