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Foregrounding children’s agency and voices, Debating Childhood Masculinities brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship to examine how childhood masculinities are constructed, experienced and regulated in different parts of the world.
Adopting a gender-inclusive approach, authors in this edited collection embrace a variety of anti-racist, feminist, neomaterialist and queer frameworks to showcase an international and interdisciplinary body of scholarship that explores the way childhood masculinities in today’s world are being negotiated and lived out in the context of wider social change across gender relations and masculine ideals. Grounded in the premise that childhood masculinities are not biologically determined, chapters outline how children’s understanding and enactment of masculinity are culturally conditioned, historically contingent, social-material constructions that are produced at the intersection of generational and gendered relations.
Providing an impactful and ground-breaking contribution to the fields of childhood and masculinity studies, this expert collection leads the academic conversation on masculinities into new and productive directions. The fresh insights offered here will be useful to childhood practitioners, educators and policy makers who are committed to gender equity and democratisation.
How are boys taught to be boys and girls taught to be girls? This simple question is deeply political, power-laden and possibly even unsettling […] Through a critical feminist, queer and anti-colonial approach to gender and childhood, this important book provides us with the tools and frameworks to start thinking about this question.
Utsa Mukherjee is Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London, UK.
Foreword; Raewyn Connell
Debating Childhood Masculinities: An Introduction; Utsa Mukherjee
Emotions and Affect
Chapter 1. Contradictory Narratives of Masculinity, Emotions and Personal Relationships Among Boys in Finland; Marja Peltola
Chapter 2. Emotional Expressions Shaping Boyhood Identities Among Elementary School Students in India; Shailly
Bodies and Materialities
Chapter 3. Materializations of Masculinity in Childhood: Theoretical Perspectives on Being a Boy in Childhood; Judith von der Heyde, Florian Eßer, and Sylvia Jäde
Chapter 4. Envisioning Trans Studies in Early Childhood Education: Implications for Rethinking Boys, Men and Masculinities; Wayne Martino, Jennifer Ingrey, Shailja Jain, and Malcolm Macdonald
Violence and Exclusion
Chapter 5. ‘They Wanted Us Out’: Young Masculinities and School Exclusion in England; Roma Thomas
Chapter 6. ‘I thought that I am girly, girlish because of all that’: Effeminophobia as Violence in the Context of Child Sexual Abuse and Hegemonic Masculinity in India; Alankaar Sharma
Privacy and Inclusion
Chapter 7. Masculinity and the Inclusion of Girls and Boys With Refugee Backgrounds in Swedish Sports Clubs; Peter Carlman and Maria Hjalmarsson
Chapter 8. At the Nexus of Gender and Generational Order: Constructions of Childhood Masculinities and Femininities in Negotiating Individual Privacy in Türkiye; Hamide Elif Üzümcü
Concluding Thoughts; Utsa Mukherjee