Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education : Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (Paperback)

1.?Introduction: Gender and sexuality in Global South early childhood education? 2.?“He calls me babe, he says I’m sexy”: Girls, boys, and sexualities in the early years? 3.?“No! We definitely don’t teach that sort of thing”: Teachers and the childhood-sexuality assemblage in South Africa? 4.?Beauty in Kainat (the universe): Discourses of heterosexuality in Pakistan’s early childhood classrooms? 5.?Gender and sexuality in Brazilian early childhood education? 6.?“The pole is sacred”: Disciplining sexuality in teaching pole dance to Brazilian children? 7.?“Macho males and puppy crushes”: Teachers and the interplay of masculinity in the early years of primary schooling? 8.?When nature calls: How male teachers negotiate gender and care work in early childhood education? 9.?“Females are still the king”: Men can’t handle teaching young children? 10.?Autoethnographic explorations of the impacts of cultural and gender conventions that frame childhood? 11.?Heteronormativity in a Chinese sexuality education textbook series: The case of Cherish Lives