Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change
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DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2021.1923674
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发表时间：
2021-05-11
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1.9
通讯作者：
Elley, Sharon
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作者：
Allen, Kim;Cuthbert, Karen;Elley, Sharon
在跨性别、跨性别或跨性别类别的人们的文化知名度不断提高的背景下，年轻人在更广泛的社会想象中被定位为新的、进步的性别秩序的激进开拓者。本文提供了原创性见解，以经验为基础并质疑了此类主张。该论文借鉴了对英国 136 名年轻人（16-24 岁）进行的焦点小组访谈的结果，展示了年轻人对性别多样性的理解和叙述如何支持和反对线性进步叙述。我们展示了年轻人如何与老一辈人相比，如何看待他们对性别多样性的接受程度。然而，这种关于代际进步的叙述因年轻人谈话中的紧张局势和模糊性而受到破坏和复杂化。我们的研究结果表明，除了接受性别多样性之外，年轻人还经历了困惑和误解，这可能意味着他们更愿意接受稳定和二元形式的性别多样性。此外，一些年轻人在围绕“身份政治”的更广泛辩论中表达了对性别多样性的意识形态抵制。总体而言，我们强调将年轻人的性别谈话置于多个话语体系中的重要性，在这些体系中，围绕“性别”含义的日益政治化的斗争目前正在上演。
Against a backdrop of increasing cultural visibility of people who identify across, between or beyond the categories of male and female, young people have been positioned within the wider social imaginary as radical trailblazers for a new, progressive gender order. This paper provides original insights that empirically ground and interrogate such claims. Drawing on findings from focus group interviews held with 136 young people (aged 16-24) in the UK, the paper demonstrates how young people's understandings and narrations of gender diversity both support and contest linear progress narratives. We show how young people position their acceptance of gender diversity in contradistinction to older generations. However, this narrative of generational progress was undermined and complicated by tensions and ambiguities within young people's talk. Our findings suggest that, alongside being accepting of gender diversity, young people also experience confusion and misunderstanding which may mean that they are more comfortable with stable and binary forms of gender diversity. Moreover, some young people express ideological resistance to gender diversity, informed by wider debates around 'identity politics'. Overall, we stress the importance of situating young people's gender talk amidst multiple discursive constellations through which increasingly politicised struggles around the meanings of 'gender' are currently playing out.