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SILVA, Marta Regina Paulo da. "Girls don´t draw cars...but there are girls who do it": child cultures, gender relations and comics. Perspectiva [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.3, pp.983-1009. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n3p983.

This article discusses child culture-oriented productions based on the experience of boys and girls aged 3-5 with the language found in comics, focusing on gender relations. It views comics as one of the media products which can interfere in children living style, many times reinforcing sexual differentiation stereotypes. It also examines, in association with philosophy, sociology, sociology of childhood, early childhood pedagogy and art, how children interpret comics and what they reproduce of, invent or reinvent from them. It shows a case study conducted at kindergarten, in the Great ABC region, which had as methodological procedures: the field observation and recordings; the oral reports of children; analysis of the official documents of the Municipal Administration of Education and of the preschool; an interview with a comic artist, and analysis of comics produced by children. It supports that boys and girls actively take part in the society in which they live. In fact, not only do they imitate the adult world culture, but by absorbing it collectively and creatively, they produce child cultures. It demonstrates that comics are part of the material culture of childhood, that function as a support for the symbolic aspects of children cultures to be shared between kids and among them and the adults. This way, it indicates the challenge of bringing up the children to the debate about the relation between childhood, media and gender, with the aim of under standing how they enjoy, produce and go beyond the media images.

Palabras clave : Childhood; Gender; The Media.

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