Abstract

DE OLIVEIRA PINTO, Tatiane  and  LOPES, Maria de Fátima. Fun in the space of the street and the demarcation of the genders in childhood. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.2, pp.861-885. ISSN 1692-715X.

This article highlights the street as an area of infantile sociability: a singular universe to boys and girls. Here we indicate the games that are presented in their specific spaces to kids. It looks for interpreting the meanings, the behaviour and values symbolized by the fun and games through the analysis of the universes of small men and small women, formed in childhood. The games considered proper for boys are presented, where the masculinity is aspired and negotiated and the games seen as specific to girls, that represent much of daily life and family and neighborhood relations .We included in our reflection the analysis of games in mixed groups of boys and girls, which symbolizes a conflict sociability, a sociability marked by the avoidance among those ones who occupy the same space. Besides punctuating the segregation among these groups, it discusses here the representations and meanings attributed to the games. As well as the space of the street becomes relevant to the interaction among the small ones, we highlight the relevance of the popular universe that occurs intensely in these representations in childhood, since our eyes are turned, over all, to popular groups. Values as family, neighborhood and group are evoked by the small ones and reflected in the relations established in their interactions.

Keywords : Games in the street; infantile sociability; gender roles; masculinities; femininities; popular spaces.

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