Gendered childhoods: a cross disciplinary overview

Montgomery, Heather

doi:10.1080/09540250500192553

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“…In addition, a child-centred anthropology views children as the best informants of their own lives and worlds (Montgomery 2005). Children are competent social actors and therefore need to be involved in the construction of new understandings about their worlds.…”

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'I had no credit to ring you back': Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones

Barron

2014

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The monitoring of children in time and space, from a distance via the mobile phones, is a phenomenon never experienced in previous generations. Indeed, as frequently recited, the increased protection of children by monitoring them is a central characteristic of modern childhood (Rasmussen, 2003; Qvortrup, 1993) and the effects of this are not yet know. Equally our understanding of how children in middle childhood (8 – 12 years) negotiate and or resist this monitoring is unclear. This paper seeks to add to the emerging body of knowledge on the strategies employed by children in middle childhood to negotiate and resist the monitoring and surveillance of their physical selves in time and space using mobile phones. I suggest that the mobile phone can be transformed by children into a highly efficient device to enable them to both negotiate and resist surveillance thus increasing their autonomy and independent mobility. Children are not passive recipients of parental surveillance and power, rather they are increasingly playing an active role in negotiation with parents and actively resist monitoring of their everyday lives to both make meaning anew and produce culture.

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'I had no credit to ring you back': Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones

Barron

2014

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“…Recent analyses particularly from humanistic (Montgomery 2005), but also from biological (Crittenden & Marlowe 2008, Hrdy 2005, frameworks have argued for greater attention to the economic value of girls' labor and the roles of parental power and coercion in the establishment of gendered patterns of play and work. This approach might allow us to think about the effects of infant temperament in different ways.…”

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The Early Development of Gender Differences

McIntyre

Edwards

2009

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article reviews findings from anthropology, psychology, and other disciplines about the role of biological factors in the development of sex differences in human behavior, including biological theories, the developmental course of sex differences, and the interaction of biological and cultural gendering processes at different ages. Current evidence suggests that major biological influences on individual differences in human gender, to the extent that they exist, operate primarily in early development, during and especially prior to puberty. Biological effects are likely to be mediated by relatively simple processes, like temperament, which are then elaborated through social interactions (as with mother and peers) into more complex gendered features of adult personality. Biological anthropologists and psychologists interested in gender should direct more attention to understanding how social processes influence the development and function of the reproductive endocrine system.

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“…It is the invisible activity of women, which is never accounted for in economic analyses. It is women's unappreciated and unrewarding work (Ogden, Esim and Grown 2006; see Montgomery 2005; Piwoz and Bentley 2005; Robson 2004). While these views may be correct, they ignore the meanings embedded in childcare narratives, power relationships, men's role, and childcare roles located outside the household (Wilson, Fyson and Newstone 2007; WHO 2004; Engle 1997; Nsamenang 2010).…”

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Power in Child Caregiving in a Patrilineal Ghanaian Society: Implications for Childcare Research and Practice

Drah

2020

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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Ethnographic research on childcare has focused on understanding the influence of cultural contexts on childcare. The research, however, lacks discussions of a child's caregiver as a position of power, and analysis of the knowledge underpinning childcare. Consequently, much remains unknown about the adults responsible for childcare, the significance of their roles, and the values that shape their actions. This paper analyzes how the meanings embedded within the position of “child's caregiver” and the narratives around the position influence childcare practices in Manya Klo, Ghana. The findings suggest that research has overlooked the influence of power in analyses of childcare roles and identifying children's caregivers. The findings challenge the use of female household headship, direct observation of parent–child contact, provision of material goods, and fathers’ absence as bases for determining children's caregivers. The differences in the meanings of childcare concepts create different expectations for local communities and external agencies that support children.

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Gendered childhoods: a cross disciplinary overview

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

'I had no credit to ring you back': Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones

'I had no credit to ring you back': Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones

The Early Development of Gender Differences

Power in Child Caregiving in a Patrilineal Ghanaian Society: Implications for Childcare Research and Practice

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