Journal article
More than “sluts” or “prissy girls”: Gender and becoming in senior secondary drama classrooms
International Journal of Education & the Arts, Vol.18(18)
2017
Abstract
This article examines the relationships between the embodiment of dramatic characters, gender, and identity. It draws on ethnographic data based on observations and interviews with 24 drama teachers and senior secondary drama students in Western Australia. We explore how student becomings in year 12 drama classrooms are mediated and constituted through socially overcoded gender binaries in a dominant neoliberal culture of competitive performativity. We ask the questions: What constructions of femininity and masculinity are students embodying from popular dramatic texts in the drama classroom at a critical time in their social and emotional development? Are these constructions empowering? Or disempowering? What factors are influencing teachers’ choices of texts for their predominantly female students? Our research shows that what is delimiting about this potentiality in a time of identity exploration and formation are the constraining gender-binary roles available to young women particularly, and the performative pressures teachers are experiencing.
Details
- Title
- More than “sluts” or “prissy girls”: Gender and becoming in senior secondary drama classrooms
- Authors/Creators
- K. Lambert (Author/Creator)P.R. Wright (Author/Creator)J. Currie (Author/Creator)R. Pascoe (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Education & the Arts, Vol.18(18)
- Publisher
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Identifiers
- 991005541118607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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