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- Title
'We Are Gunslinging Girls:' Gender and Place in Playground Clapping Games.
- Authors
Casals, Albert; Riera, Joanna
- Abstract
This article presents a qualitative study of clapping games in the playground, a space directly conditioned by its historical and socio-cultural context. Based on qualitative interviews and observations with adults and children in Catalonia, Spain, we argue that the repressive Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the emergence of Spanish feminist and other critical movements in the late 1960s have shaped the nature of clapping games in school playgrounds. Trough a close analysis of their lyrics, we defend the idea that the study of clapping games is important for understanding the gendered geographies and culturally-specific moments of girlhood in Catalonia, and highlight the role of playgrounds as spaces where girls negotiate their roles and identities.
- Subjects
CATALONIA (Spain); HAND-clapping games; FEMINISM
- Publication
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice / Études Critiques sur le Genre, la Culture, et la Justice, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0702-7818
- Publication type
Article