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Record Nr.

UNISA996328034403316

Titolo

Normed children : effects of gender and sex related normativity on childhood and adolescence / / Erik Schneider, Christel Baltes-Löhr (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-8394-3020-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Collana

Gender Studies

Disciplina

155.43

Soggetti

Sex role in children

Gender identity

Transsexualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  CONTENTS    5  Introduction    9  Always Gender - Always Different    17  Human Diversity: To the Detriment of Norms    39  Gender Identities and Human Rights    45  The Gender Issue, a Question of Non-Discrimination    57  The Concept of Human Gender: Its Epistemological and Ethical Impact    63  The Art of not Being Categorized Quite So (Much)    81  Who has a Disorder? Who gets to Decide?    95  An Unusual Way of Addressing Sex/Gender    113  The Sex of Knowledge: Sexuated and Gendered Anatomy    123  Determining Sex/Gender: Genes and DNA Precisely Do Not Predict the Development of a Genital Tract...    137  Cuba: A Revolution of Sexualities, Sexes/Genders and Bodies    155  Trans-Children: Between Normative Power and Self-Determination    167  Hormone Treatment of Transsexual Adolescents    189  Genetic or Biological Trans Parenthood: Dream or Reality?    197  Intersex/Gender-Related Constitutiveness: Specific Realities, Specific Norms    209  Intersex: Medical Measures on the Test Bed    229  Intersex and Human Rights    245  Medical Resistance to Criticism of Intersex Activists: Operations on the Frontline of Credibility    257  The Parent-Child Attachment and its Influence on Children Developing beyond the Binary Sex/Gender Norm    273  Transmitting Gender Competence in Biology Teacher Training    285  



Prisoners of Lexicon: Cultural Cisgenderism and Transgender Children    297  Educational Activities: From Binary to Gender-Plural Approaches    313  Transidentity and Puberty    339  Optimism, Happiness and other Cruelties from a Conference on Sex/Gender Norms    351  Authors    365

Sommario/riassunto

Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations.  After its favorable reception in German-speaking countries from 2014 onwards, this title is now available in English. The texts show 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.