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Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, bo pristop k vprašanjem jezika
in spola nujno interdisciplinaren. V jezikoslovnih razmislekih je potreben
preskok z osredinjenosti na leksiko in poimenovalnost (sredstva, ki že ob-
stajajo) na argumente oblikoskladenjske ter zlasti simbolne moškosredišč-
ne strukturiranosti jezikovnih znakov, pri čemer se ne bo mogoče povsem
izogniti sodobnim spoznanjem družboslovnih ved in tudi delu naravo-
slovja (npr. Fausto-Sterling, 2014) o tem, da je pripis spola družbena od-
ločitev (npr. Butler, 2001 /1990/, 1993). Na tem mestu, kjer nas zanimajo
zlasti učinki SORJ na diskurzivni ravni, zagovarjamo stališče, da bistvo
prizadevanj za bolj vključevalen jezik – s poudarkom na diskurzu v izo-
braževalnem okolju – ni v licitaciji, avtorizaciji in institucionalizaciji po-
sameznih rešitev in strategij s strani jeziko(slo)vnih avtoritet, temveč v ra-
zumevanju SORJ kot množice mikropolitik in kontinuiranega procesa, v
katerem nenehno preizprašujemo jezikovne samoumevnosti glede na dani
družbeni kontekst.
Ključne besede: spolno občutljiva raba jezika, izobraževanje, diskurz, jezik-
ovni sistem, moškost kot norma, slovnični spol, družbeni spol
Majda Hrženjak
SPORTY BOYS AND FASHION GIRLS: MANOEUVRING
BETWEEN DOMINANT NORMS OF GENDER IDENTITY
The trigger for this article was the “Lévi-Straussian mythical formula” girls
: boys = fashion : football, which came to the fore in the conversation with
girls and boys aged 13 and 14 years. Amid the cacophony of ambivalent
representations and meanings of modern masculinities and femininities
which young people are facing, it schematically expresses traditional sym-
bolic relations and gender differences. International studies at the cross-
roads of cultural, educational and gender studies, including critical stud-
ies of men and masculinities (Frosh et al., 2002; Zaslow, 2009; Haywood
& Mac an Ghaill, 2007) show that teenagers use clothing practices to as-
sert an imaginary boundary in relational and binary self-construction of
masculine and feminine identity. The article analyses how teenagers de-
ploy clothing practices, the strong attention they pay to their outfit and
some other techniques of body self-regulation in order to negotiate social
control and peer pressure related to the processes of the self-construction
of masculine and feminine identity. The analysis looks at the peculiar-
ities of these processes in doing hegemonic or marginalised masculini-
ties and traditional or alternative femininities. Comparison of boys’ and
girls’ (in intersections with classed and ethicised social locations) attitudes
to clothing and outfit demonstrates that both experience the pressure of
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Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, bo pristop k vprašanjem jezika
in spola nujno interdisciplinaren. V jezikoslovnih razmislekih je potreben
preskok z osredinjenosti na leksiko in poimenovalnost (sredstva, ki že ob-
stajajo) na argumente oblikoskladenjske ter zlasti simbolne moškosredišč-
ne strukturiranosti jezikovnih znakov, pri čemer se ne bo mogoče povsem
izogniti sodobnim spoznanjem družboslovnih ved in tudi delu naravo-
slovja (npr. Fausto-Sterling, 2014) o tem, da je pripis spola družbena od-
ločitev (npr. Butler, 2001 /1990/, 1993). Na tem mestu, kjer nas zanimajo
zlasti učinki SORJ na diskurzivni ravni, zagovarjamo stališče, da bistvo
prizadevanj za bolj vključevalen jezik – s poudarkom na diskurzu v izo-
braževalnem okolju – ni v licitaciji, avtorizaciji in institucionalizaciji po-
sameznih rešitev in strategij s strani jeziko(slo)vnih avtoritet, temveč v ra-
zumevanju SORJ kot množice mikropolitik in kontinuiranega procesa, v
katerem nenehno preizprašujemo jezikovne samoumevnosti glede na dani
družbeni kontekst.
Ključne besede: spolno občutljiva raba jezika, izobraževanje, diskurz, jezik-
ovni sistem, moškost kot norma, slovnični spol, družbeni spol
Majda Hrženjak
SPORTY BOYS AND FASHION GIRLS: MANOEUVRING
BETWEEN DOMINANT NORMS OF GENDER IDENTITY
The trigger for this article was the “Lévi-Straussian mythical formula” girls
: boys = fashion : football, which came to the fore in the conversation with
girls and boys aged 13 and 14 years. Amid the cacophony of ambivalent
representations and meanings of modern masculinities and femininities
which young people are facing, it schematically expresses traditional sym-
bolic relations and gender differences. International studies at the cross-
roads of cultural, educational and gender studies, including critical stud-
ies of men and masculinities (Frosh et al., 2002; Zaslow, 2009; Haywood
& Mac an Ghaill, 2007) show that teenagers use clothing practices to as-
sert an imaginary boundary in relational and binary self-construction of
masculine and feminine identity. The article analyses how teenagers de-
ploy clothing practices, the strong attention they pay to their outfit and
some other techniques of body self-regulation in order to negotiate social
control and peer pressure related to the processes of the self-construction
of masculine and feminine identity. The analysis looks at the peculiar-
ities of these processes in doing hegemonic or marginalised masculini-
ties and traditional or alternative femininities. Comparison of boys’ and
girls’ (in intersections with classed and ethicised social locations) attitudes
to clothing and outfit demonstrates that both experience the pressure of
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