age patriarchy

• Gittins > 'age patriarchy'


  -describe inequalities between adults & children

  -adult domination & child dependency
• Humphreys & Thiara


  -quarter of 200 women left abusive partner

  -feared for their children's lives

  > supports Gittins' view that patriarchy oppresses children as well as women
• strategies to resist status & restrictions of child

  HOCKEY & JAMES > 'acting up' strategy > doing thinks child isn't supposed to do (swearing, smoking, drinking, joy riding, under-age sexual activity)

  -children exaggerate age > 'Im nearly...'
• strategies used to resist adult control - acting down

  -'acting down' > behaving in ways expected of younger children

  > reverting to 'baby talk'

  > insisting of being carried

  -Hockey & James conclude modern childhood is status from which most children want to escape