Construção das identidades de gênero na infância: os discursos dos brinquedos e brincadeiras

Abstract

This research analyzed how the interaction between children of a nursery, as well as the meanings of gender, which emerge from toys and games in childhood, contribute to the construction of their gender identities. As a qualitative study, it used participant observation to analyze the interaction between 15 children in a class, aged between 3 and 4 years, with the educators and with toys and games. It was noticed that the experiences among children are crossed by gender performance discourses. It was evident in the interactions that gender roles are close to those experienced by adults with whom they live and toys and games tend to reproduce the roles of normative masculinity and femininity.