„Project Child“: Parents‘ constructions of the gendered child

该研究项目位于性别、家庭和儿童研究的交叉点。它侧重于父母的（性别）形象，概念和解释模式，他们认为什么是孩子的后续发展。它要求父母在不同的家庭性别安排中对童年和性别的形象，并分析这些形象如何投射到他们的孩子身上。性别和童年的形象被认为是家庭内部的高度归属，尽管它们是媒体传播和父母采用的文化模式。一个核心的研究问题是父母的观念在多大程度上和在哪些方面受到性别典型期望的影响。这个问题是在（资产阶级）家庭转变为“谈判家庭”的背景下提出的，同时孩子的形象也随之转变为“项目儿童”，他们的发展和未来取决于父母的“正确”行为。特别要问的是，在家庭多元化和传统性别规范受到侵蚀的过程中，是否出现了以新的方式进行性别划分的“新生儿”形象。非传统的家庭性别安排（非典型的工作分工，涉及父亲等）是否与非性别典型的儿童形象有关？或者在孩子的发展位置上有一个性别框架或者没有独立于家庭性别安排的框架？我们将从以下几个方面来分析父母对孩子的建构：(1)与孩子的性别有关，(2)与家庭的生活形式有关，(3)与家庭的社会阶级隶属关系有关。基于定性访谈和家庭照片，我们将分析父母对孩子的显性和隐性形象、流传的文化性别概念以及话语关联的实践。除单亲家长外，家长将一起接受面试，他们将被要求提供最多10张家庭照片。这个研究设计提供了语言表达和视觉表达概念的途径。

The research project is situated at the intersection of gender, family and childhood studies. It focuses on the parents’ (gendered) images, concepts and interpretative patterns of what they see as a succeeding development of their child. It asks for parents’ images of childhood and gender in different familial gender arrangements and analyzes how these images are projected onto their children. It is assumed that images of gender and childhood are ascribed to a high degree within families notwithstanding that they are cultural patterns transported by media and adopted by parents. A core research question is to which degree and in which respect the parents’ concepts are influenced by gender typical expectations. This question is asked against the backdrop of the transformation of the (bourgeois) family into a ‘negotiation family’ and the accompanying change of the figure of the child towards a ‘project child’ whose development and future depends on the ‘right’ acting of the parents. In particular, it is asked whether in the course of the pluralization of the family and the erosion of traditional gender norms the image of a ‘new child’ emerges which is gendered in new ways. Do non-traditional familial gender arrangements (atypical division of work, involved fatherhood etc.) relate to not gender typical images of the child? Or takes a gendered framing of the child’s development place or the absence of such a framing independently from the familial gender arrangement? The parents’ construction of the child will be analyzed along the following dimensions: (1) in relation to the child’s gender, (2) in relation to the family’s form of life and (3) in relation to the social class affiliation of the family. Based on qualitative interviews and family photos, the parents’ explicit and implicit images of the child, circulating cultural gender concepts as well as discursively connected practices will be analyzed. With the exception of single parents, the parents will be interviewed together, and they will be asked for providing up to ten family photos. This research design gives access to verbally as well as to visually represented concepts.