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Boys negotiate violence and masculinity in the primary school

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In this paper, the authors contribute to the understandings of young masculinities by turning attention to the South African primary school context, in the context of scarcity of interventions aro...
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In this paper, we contribute to the understandings of young masculinities by turning attention to the South African schooling primary school context. In the context of scarcity of interventions aro...

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Real boys, sissies and tomboys: Exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies and heteronormative discourses

TL;DR: This paper analyzed how children negotiate and perform gender, exploring the material-discursive effects of human and non-human agents (e.g. football, sartorial elements) in their intra-actions with the body.
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Masculinity and violence: Gender, poverty and culture in a rural primary school in South Africa

TL;DR: In this paper, focus group discussions with primary school boys,girls and their teachers were conducted to examine how violence is experienced at a rural school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Primary School Boys Validating and Resisting Hegemonic Masculinities: “I Don’t Appreciate Violence at all. I Stop the Violence.”

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on primary school boys as they perform masculinities in the context of violent gender relations and demonstrate the fluid nature of masculinity by providing an account of how boys validate and/or resist hegemonic masculinity at school.
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“I Don’t Start a Fight; They Start my Powerful Engine”: Primary School Boys Negotiating Violence and Gendered Bullying

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how young boys enact their masculinities through verbal and physical violence in the form of bullying, which they use to claim power and to protect their individual masculine identity.
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Using thematic analysis in psychology

TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.

The Subject and Power

TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
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Hegemonic Masculinity Rethinking the Concept

TL;DR: The concept of hegemonic masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism as mentioned in this paper, and the authors trace the origin of the concept in a convergence of ideas and map the ways it was applied when research on men and masculinities expanded.
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The Subject and Power

Michel Foucault
- 01 Jul 1982 - 
TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.

World report on violence against children

TL;DR: In this paper, a Webseite soll uber die Gewalt gegen Kinder Informieren und ein genaues Bild des Ausmases uber dieses gesellschaftliche Problem aufzeigen.
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How do all-boys schools affect the perception of masculinity of their students?

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