Mannay, Dawn  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111
2013.
'If it's pink, scrape the pink off': Negotiating acceptable 'tomboy' femininity in the playground.
Women in Society
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Abstract
Issues of women in society are intimately connected with issues of girlhood in society; and this paper examines one young girl’s interpretations of the lived experience of femininity; particularly in relation to her self-identification of ‘tomboy’. The paper argues that femininity is regulated by and built against both the ideology of masculinity and the embodied parameters of manliness enacted by boys, sometimes in the form of physical violence. This aggression was normalised as something that ‘boys do’ rather than challenged as an attack on the liberty of girls; however, violence was also used by the participant to police gender boundaries and negotiate an acceptable form of femininity within the complexities of children’s worlds.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > L Education (General) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Femininity, Regulation, Gender Identity, Visual Methods, Violence |
| Publisher: | University of South Wales |
| ISSN: | 2042-7220 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Projects: | Mothers and Daughters on the Margins: Gender, Generation and Education |
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| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2026 11:19 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57661 |
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