Absence of girl images: The gender construct in personal and social education in Hong Kong

Absence of girl images: The gender construct in personal and social education in Hong Kong

• Kam, Iris Chui Ping

Sex Education, 12(5), 569-581, 2012

Routledge

2012

• P Social Context of Education
  • PI Education of Girls & Women, Gender Roles; Gender; Femininities; Masculinities; Sexualities
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AD Individual Differences
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AG Child Development & Health
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GE Social Sciences, Business & Law

Individual Development Womens Education Sex Differences Sex Education Social Development

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

Education Ordinance 1971 in Hong Kong not only provided girls with a much greater chance of receiving education than had hitherto been the case, it also had the effect of incorporating them into the regulatory framework of the school system. This paper examines how the discourses of civic education and sex education before and after reunification with mainland China have interchanged the concept of gender with the biological sex in the construction of the girl. In particular, it argues that, in the name of maintaining the stability of society, the developmental path for girls has been limited in the discourses of sex, personal and social education. As a result, girls are only presumed to become women and take up their appropriate gender roles according to the social norms of contemporary Hong Kong.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2011.627737]

• English

Journal Articles

• 14681811

• 10.1080/14681811.2011.627737

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/0b155a3e

2014-01-18