'Girls don't play soccer': children policing gender on the playground in a township primary school i...
'Girls don't play soccer': children policing gender on the playground in a township primary school in South Africa
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Abingdon: Routledge
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English
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Abingdon: Routledge
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This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted between 2012 and 2014 with a group of 64 boys and girls aged 6-10, all attending the same township primary school in South Africa. The paper explores how the young children construct gender 'boundaries' and 'police' gender 'transgressions' on the school playground during break-time. The finding...
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'Girls don't play soccer': children policing gender on the playground in a township primary school in South Africa
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1913361163
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1913361163
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0954-0253
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1360-0516
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10.1080/09540253.2016.1187262
