The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education,9780415345750

The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415345750
ISBN10: 0415345758
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-06-14
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This unique reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in gender and education today. Focusing on enduring trends, it is lively and informative, providing broad coverage of the issues and including crucial topics.With an emphasis on new work that deals with issues relevant to the real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Madeleine Arnot, highly regarded for her work in this area, also includes a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to the role of gender in the current educational climate.Students of education with an interest in gender issues will find this an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
1 (Re)contextualising gender studies in education: schooling in late modernity 1(14)
MADELEINE ARNOT AND MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL
Gender in late modernity
2(3)
Feminisation of schooling and the 'crisis of masculinity'
5(1)
The (re)masculinisation of schooling and girls' education
6(2)
Gender theory in education
8(7)
PART 1 Gender and educational theory 15(44)
2 Gender theory and research in education: modernist traditions and emerging contemporary themes
17(16)
JO-ANNE DILLABOUGH
Introduction
17(1)
The development of gender in education as a field of study
17(2)
Gender, educational structures and social reproduction
19(1)
Transformations of gender theory and educational research
20(1)
Emerging themes/theoretical orientations in gender and education
21(7)
Conclusion
28(5)
3 Troubling boys and disturbing discourses on masculinity and schooling: a feminist exploration of current debates and interventions concerning boys in school
33(16)
LYNN RAPHAEL REED
Introduction
33(1)
Composing the subject: orchestrating the crisis
34(8)
A feminist's perspective on masculinities and schooling
42(7)
4 Education and gender identity: seeking frameworks of understanding
49(12)
CHRIS HAYWOOD AND MAIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL
Materialist and deconstructionist identity epistemologies
50(1)
Materialist accounts of identity: politics, structure and agency
50(3)
Deconstructionist accounts of identity formation: multiplicity, inversion and binaries
53(3)
Conclusion
56(3)
PART 2 Difference and power 59(56)
5 Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory
61(11)
JUDITH BUTLER
Sex/gender: feminist and phenomenological views
62(3)
Binary genders and the heterosexual contract
65(4)
Feminist theory: beyond an expressive model of gender
69(3)
6 Identity, abjection and otherness: creating the self, creating difference
72(19)
BRONWYN DAVIES
Border-work and abjection: constituting the other
73(3)
An analytic framework for researching transgressive practice
76(7)
The tickle in the brain: bringing the analytic framework to bear on practice
83(5)
Notes for an enabling pedagogy
88(3)
7 Masculine domination: permanence and change
91(10)
PIERRE BOURDIEU
The historical labour of dehistoricization
91(2)
The factors of change
93(3)
The economy of symbolic goods and reproduction strategies
96(2)
The strength of the structure
98(3)
8 The big picture: masculinities in recent world history
101(16)
R.W. CONNELL
Studying 'Masculinity'
101(4)
Masculinities in history
105(3)
Contemporary politics
108(7)
PART 3 Identity work 115(46)
9 'Spice girls', 'nice girls', 'girlies', and 'tomboys': gender discourses, girls' cultures and femininities in the primary classroom
117(14)
DIANE REAY
Introduction
117(1)
The research study
117(1)
Gender discourses
118(1)
Masculinities in the classroom: setting the context
119(2)
Sugar and spice and all things nice?
121(4)
It's better being a boy' – the tomboys
125(2)
Conclusion
127(4)
10 'Lads and laughter': humour and the production of heterosexual hierarchies
131(16)
MARY JANE KEHILY AND ANOOP NAYAK
Introduction
131(1)
Methodology
132(1)
Regimes of humour: masculinities, game-play and insults
132(6)
Retelling ourselves – mythic events and heterosexual identities
138(4)
Humour and sex/gender hierarchies
142(2)
Conclusion: the last laugh?
144(3)
11 Gender-blind racism in the experience of schooling and identity formation
147(14)
CECILE WRIGHT, DEBBIE WEEKES AND ALEX MCGLAUGHLIN
The study
148(1)
Gendering 'race'
149(2)
Racializing school exclusions
151(2)
Differential experiences
153(2)
Power and powerlessness
155(2)
Conclusion
157(4)
PART 4 Knowledge and pedagogy 161(60)
12 Boys don't write romance: the construction of knowledge and social gender identities in English classrooms
163(17)
GABRIELLE IVINSON AND PATRICIA MURPHY
Social and political context of the study
163(1)
The study
163(1)
Understanding learning and settings
163(1)
The social world of gender
164(1)
Research stance
165(1)
Method and design
165(2)
Analysing learning
167(1)
Interpersonal plane of analysis
167(4)
Summary remarks
171(1)
Personal plane of analysis
172(5)
Concluding remarks
177(3)
13 Beyond the birds and the bees: constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education
180(14)
LOUISA ALLEN
Introduction
180(2)
'The birds and the bees': de-eroticized sex education
182(1)
Benefits of including a discourse of erotics in sexuality education
183(2)
First steps: building a discourse of erotics around young people
185(5)
Closing thoughts
190(4)
14 Power, bodies and identity: how different forms of physical education construct varying masculinities and femininities in secondary schools
194(12)
CARRIE PAECHTER
Performing gender in secondary school PE
195(2)
Franks' typology of bodily usage
197(2)
Bodily use, PE, sports and fitness practices
199(4)
Conclusion
203(3)
15 Masculinity, violence and schooling: challenging 'poisonous pedagogies'
206(15)
JANE KENWAY AND LINDSAY FITZCLARENCE
Introduction
206(1)
Violence and masculinity, marginality, sexuality, intimacy and age
206(6)
'Schooling the violent imagination'
212(9)
PART 5 Reflexivity and risk 221(62)
16 Working out intimacy: young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity
223(15)
JULIE MCLEOD
Affect, relationships and the self
224(3)
Changing patterns of gender difference
227(2)
Connection and autonomy
229(1)
Rearticulating masculinity through relationship narratives
230(4)
Concluding comments
234(4)
17 Uneasy hybrids: psychosocial aspects of becoming educationally successful for working-class young women
238(14)
HELEN LUCEY, JUNE MELODY AND VALERIE WALKERDINE
Hybridity
239(1)
Project 4:21 transitions to womanhood
240(1)
Into the family
241(1)
Nicky
241(3)
Holly
244(2)
Belonging and escape
246(2)
Going it alone
248(1)
Conclusion
249(3)
18 Nomadic subjects: young black women in Britain
252(16)
MARIA TAMBOUKOU AND STEPHEN BALL
Introduction
252(1)
Of nomadic thinking, or to think is to experiment
253(3)
Locating entrapment
256(4)
Escape attempts: the becoming thought of the young women
260(2)
Moving off, becoming a nomad
262(6)
19 Citizenship and the self-made girl
268(15)
ANITA HARRIS
Social rights and the self-made girl
269(4)
Ambassadress for the nation
273(4)
Consumer citizens
277(2)
Conclusion
279(4)
Index 283

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