title: ["Sex-daring games": sexuality and gender socialization in the working-class children's universe].
abstract: This article focuses on the socialization of children and youth with respect to gender and sexuality, from a socio-anthropological perspective. The work is based on ethnographic research in a group of 5-14-year-old boys and girls in a community in Baia de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil. Despite the strong influence of family and school in primary socialization, the children reproduced and re-elaborated norms and practices on appropriate gender and sexual conduct, especially among their peers, and primarily in the context of play. The research analyzes the children s representations and practices in this socializing process, showing how gender and sexuality are socially constructed according to the contexts in which the different social interactions take place.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, 44031-460, Brasil. jucelia@ufba.br
authors.forename: Jucélia Santos Bispo
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000883:Anthropology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012574:Schools; D012737:Sex Factors; D019529:Sexuality; D012951:Socialization; D013663:Teaching