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Alicia Bernardos Hernández
INSTIFEM. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
Irene Martínez Martín
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
Irene Solbes Canales
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022), RESEARCHES, pages 78-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24310/mgnmar.v3i2.13141
Submitted: Aug 5, 2021 Accepted: Mar 18, 2022 Published: Jul 30, 2022
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Research suggests a current transformation in young population gender discourses and cultures. Our aim in the present research is to analyse the discourse of a group of adolescents - with a flexible view on the construction of gender and a high level of social acceptance in their peer group - around the identification with gender categories. We used a qualitative approach to discourse analysis based on open-ended semi-structured interviews. The interviewees described the categories woman/man from different independent dimensions, highlighting self-identification as the key dimension for belonging to the category. Their discourses stand out for their resistance to the rigidity and statism of monoglossic discourse, showing rejection against what they enunciate as stereotypical and rigid, in a complex negotiation between the desire for social acceptance and the search for more flexible ways of being a girl/boy. 

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