Writing collaborative autoethnographic stories to understand Vietnamese children’s gendered toys
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Abstract
This paper presents our childhood memories about children’s toys as gendered in family life, school, and beyond in Vietnam. Framed by the construction of masculinity, femininity and heteronormativity, we galvanise our stories into vignettes to discuss how popular children’s toys, such as dolls and a cooking playset, could be used as a means to foster gender stereotypes in young children. In a collaborative autoethnography, we gathered our narratives in contexts of being and becoming in our early lives as children in Vietnam where we were raised to conform to adults’ gender performance expectations. Our vignettes reveal that gendered toys were instrumental for adults to shape children’s gender performances and identities in a heterosexual society. Gender-socialised toy preferences go against the notion of children having agency and being able to engage in meaning-making, which can cause diverse emotional distresses and vulnerabilities for some during their formative years and throughout their lives.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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