From the strands of cultural and gender studies, I intend to discuss how the meanings of gender are provided/set up/crossed in bodily practices experienced by girls and boys. I question how the body, bodily practices and games take place in the schoolyard. I conducted an ethnographic study over one year at a public school in Porto Alegre, focusing on grade one to four, mapping games and negotiations of gender and sexuality, which inscribed on the children's bodies, allow discipline/resistances. I argue that an unintentional learning happens in playground space, through which children learn to be boys and girls of a certain way, legitimizing one way over others.
Gender; Sexuality; Games