Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Making a Place for Gender and Sexuality in the Early Years of Primary Schooling; Theoretical Toolkit of Power: Feminist, Social/Structural Thinking; Rethinking Sex/Gender Models: Feminist Poststructuralism; Researching Gender and Sexuality in the Four School Multi-sited Ethnography; Contextualising the Schools; The Schools and Participants; Study Details; Observing in Schools; Interviews with Teachers; Conversations with Children; Structure of the Book; References; 2 Children Are Children: Gender Doesn't Matter?

Fixing Boys and Girls as Opposites and Unequal: Categorical Thinking as a Regime of TruthChildren Are Children-Children Are Innocent; Gender, Boys, Girls and Nature; Sex-Role Socialisation; Boys Will Be Boys; Changing Gender: Race, Class and Culture; Westridge School; Looking Indian, Seeing Muslim; Umhlatuzana School; African Boys Don't Perform; KwaDabeka School; Black Girls and Culture: We Must not Look into the Eyes of a Male; Umbumbulu School; Conclusion; References; 3 Teachers Are Mothers: Can Men Teach Young Children?

Men in the Early Years of South African Primary Schooling: Why It Is Important?Teachers Are Mothers; Corporal Punishment and the Contradiction of Care; Who Should Teach You? "#x; Which Ever One Isn't the Strictest, like a Girl"; Conclusion; References; 4 "Boys Will Be Boys": What Do Teachers Have to Do with It?; Understanding Masculinities; "Boys Will Be Boys" Contextualising Masculinities at Westridge School; Boys Will Be Boys; Rugger Buggers and Smoothies; Shaping up Nicely: Boys and Mathematical Power; Conclusion; References

5 "Here in the Rural Areas They Don't Say that Men and Women Are Equal!" Culture, Materiality and GenderGender and Rural Education; Gender and Rurality in KwaZulu-Natal; Notes from the Field; Father: The Speaker in the House; Move Away, We Are Men Here; Beyond Culture: Contesting and Changing Gender Inequalities; Conclusion; References; 6 "These Kids Live a Hard Life": Inequalities, Violence and Gender in Everyday Teaching; Gender, Violence and Schooling; Survival of the Fittest: Violence, Gender, Culture, Poverty and the School; Girls Cleaning Schools: Contesting Gender Inequalities

Tsotsi BoysConclusion; References; 7 'Voetsek!' Boys, Violence, and the Gendered Negotiation of Masculinity; Being a Boy in Poor Contexts in South Africa: Violence and Masculinities; Boys, Girls and Misogyny; Boys and Boys; Sexual Violence: Boys Want to Do Things with the Girls but the Girls Don't Want to Do Those Things; Boys and Authority; Fragility and Stability; Yimvu Boys; Yimvus and Girls; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8 "Girls Hit!" Constructing and Negotiating Violent Femininities; Girls, Beyond Victims; South African Context of Gender and Political Resistance.