196 - Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Paper Session. Children and Youth Troubling Sex and Gender

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Children and youth are some of the central actors in contemporary collisions of gender and sexual regimes, as parents, institutions, and young people navigate the meanings and practices of their gender and sexuality. In recent years, scholars have documented a number of transformations occurring in terms of gender and sexual identity for children and youth. While some of these shifts are tied to an increasingly fragmented gender and sexual system, they are also bundled up with broader transformations in identity processes in late modernity and our changing relationships to public and private institutions. This paper session will examine the new terrain of sex and gender for children and youth, shedding light on the social processes that both open and foreclose gender and sexual possibilities with attention to institutional settings, peer groups, family and parenting, participation in increasingly diverse cultures of children and youth, and other factors.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Children and Youth Troubling Sex and Gender

Session Organizer

• Amy L. Best, George Mason University

Presider

• Amy L. Best, George Mason University

Individual Presentations

• The Intersex Kids Are All Right? Diagnosis Disclosure and the Experiences of Intersex Youth - Georgiann Davis, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Chris Wakefield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Beyond Resilience: Survival Strategies and Resistance of LGBTQ Youth - Ellen K. Scott, University of Oregon; C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon; Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University; Ben Anderson-Nathe, Child & Family Studies | School of Social Work

• Constructing the Homeschooled Child: Childhood Gender and Sexuality in the Homeschooling Movement(s) - Kate Henley Averett, University at Albany, SUNY

• Sexuality, Youth, and Anti-bullying’s Unintended Outcomes - Sarah Ann Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Discussant

• Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University